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Melanie M. Jeschke

            Melanie Morey Jeschke (pronounced jes-key), a native of Pittsburgh,    
       Pennsylvania, grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and graduated from the
       University of Virginia as a Phi Beta Kappa with an Honors degree in
       English Literature and a minor in European and English History.

           Melanie lived a semester in Paris and has traveled throughout   
       Europe and the Middle East. She has made numerous trips to Great Britain
       and organized a group tour to Scotland and England that included a stay
       at J.R.R. Tolkien’s Merton College in Oxford. She has attended three
       conferences on C. S. Lewis at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and
       served as the Oxford information hostess for the C. S. Lewis Foundation.
       Her oldest daughter Katherine attended Oxford University for a term and
       played on the University Women's football (soccer) team.   

            Melanie's various trips to the UK inspired her novels The Oxford
      Chronicles:  Inklings containing the sequel  Intentions, July 2004;
     Expectations, March 2005; and Evasions, a “prequel”  set in WWII,
      August  2006. An earlier edition of Inklings (without Intentions) was
      published by Xulon Press in 2002.

            A free-lance travel writer, Melanie contributed the Oxford chapter to
       the Rick Steves’ England 2006 guidebook. She is a member of the
       Capital Christian Writers  and Christian Fiction Writers as well as three
       book clubs, and taught high-school English before home-schooling most of
       her nine children. Melanie lectures on Lewis and Tolkien, Oxford, and
       writing, and gives inspirational talks to all manner of groups, including
       university classes, women’s clubs, young professionals, teens, and
       school children.

           A fourth generation pastor’s wife (her father Dr. Earl Morey is a retired
       Presbyterian minister), Melanie resides in the Greater Washington, D.C.
       area  with her children and husband Bill Jeschke, a soccer coach and
       the Senior Pastor of The King’s Chapel, an non-denominational Christian
      church in Fairfax, Virginia.

          WORLD Magazine featured an article on Melanie in their July '06 book
         issue and listed her recommendations for children's books in their
         Dec 2  '06  Kids' book issue.



                                                


 Melanie at C.S Lewis's desk in his Oxford
 home, The Kilns.
 Melanie is very grateful
 to the C.S. Lewis Foundation
  for their on-going support and inspiration.