Betty Jean Craige is Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia. She lives in Athens, Georgia.
Her non-academic books include Conversations with Cosmo: At Home with an African Grey Parrot; the Witherston Murder Mysteries: Downstream, Fairfield’s Auction, and Dam Witherston; and Aldo. Fairfield’s Auction won First Place in the 2018 Chanticleer International Book Awards in Mystery and Mayhem. Dam Witherston was named Winner of the 2018 New York City Big Book Awards in Mystery, Honorable Mention in the 2017 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards in Mystery, and Distinguished Favorite in the 2018 Independent Press Awards in Mystery. Aldo won Distinguished Favorite in the 2018 New York City Big Book Awards in Mystery and Second Place in the 2018 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards in both Mystery and Science Fiction.
Fairfield’s Auction won First Place in Mystery and Mayhem category of 2018 Chanticleer Book Awards.
Dam Witherston won Honorable Mention in the 2017 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards in Mysteries, Distinguished Favorite in 2018 Independent Press Awards in Mystery, and Winner in the 2018 New York City Big Book Awards in Mystery.
Aldo was named Distinguished Favorite in the 2018 New York City Big Book Awards in Mystery, Second Place in the Royal Dragonfly Book Awards in both Mystery and Science Fiction, and Distinguished Favorite in the 2019 Independent Press Awards in Crime Fiction.
Saxxons in Witherston received a 5-Star Review from Readers’ Favorite.
