While my parents directed the visitors’ center in Illinois, my mother wrote the history, Nauvoo Panorama, copyright 1991, by Nauvoo Restoration Inc. I quote from the author bio:
“Janath R. Cannon has served in a number of positions in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including eighteen years as a member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. She was also a counselor [with President Barbara B. Smith] in the general presidency of the Relief Society — the women’s organization of the Church. With her husband, Edwin Q. Cannon, Jr., she has served the Church in both Europe and Africa. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wellesley College [private school in Wellesley MA, ‘founded in 1870 & known for its humanities programs’], she is both a writer and an editor and has been involved with a number of articles and books on LDS Church History [including Women of Covenant: The Story of Relief Society] ... The Cannons are the parents of six children.”
“An author bio is a paragraph or so about you ... information you wish to share with readers. It's how readers get to know you beyond the pages of your book.”
(April 2, 2020, self-publishingschool.com)
What would you wish to share about your mother? In my view, especially with my wife Kay and our mothers, it’s all about love.
