About the Author

Jo Ellen Capps-Layne

Jo Ellen Capps-Layne is the author of the novel Laughter at Dawn as well as the short story, “Seasons,” and the article “American Family.” She based Laughter at Dawn on her thirty-seven years of experience in the mental health field as a social worker, and she has drawn on her knowledge of psychological disorders as a basis for her creative works. She also published “American Family” in Woman’s World about her personal experience of placing her mother in a nursing home. She graduated from the College of William & Mary in Virginia.

Laughter
at Dawn

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