Fran Moreland Johns is a graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman's College (BA, Art) and holds an MFA in Short Fiction from the University of San Francisco. For many years a newspaper and magazine writer, she has had work published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, USA Today, Business Atlanta, Parenting, National Real Estate Investor and a wide variety of other newspapers and trade magazines. Until its purchase by Forbes in 2010, Johns wrote a paid blog, Boomers and Beyond, for news aggregate site True/Slant.com. She has written for online sites including Beliefnet.com and blogged on Huffington Post, Red Room and Open Salon. She currently blogs at franjohns.net. Johns is the author of Dying Unafraid (Synergistic Press 1999) and Perilous Times: An inside look at abortion before – and after – Roe v Wade (YBK Publishers 2013.) Since broadening her scope to include fiction in the early 1990s Johns has published stories and articles in The Sun, Grit, Literal Latte (1997 Fiction Award winner for the short story Eddie Rakeleaves) and elsewhere. She is the author of a commissioned biography, Charlie's World; the biographical memoir Never In Doubt; one volume of the 13-volume Learning is for Everyone textbook series; and segments of several anthologies. Johns has served on the boards of Compassion & Choices of N.CA and the San Francisco Interfaith Council. She has served leadership roles with Calvary Presbyterian Church, and is active in local civic, arts and literary affairs. A native of Virginia who spent much of her adult life in the Atlanta area, Johns now lives in San Francisco with her husband, writer/publisher Bud Johns. She has three adult children and five grandchildren.
In this special review article, Fran Moreland Johns reviews the new book, “There’s More Than One Way Home,” by our regular columnist Donna Levin.
