Betty Jean Craige, Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia, has been a teacher, scholar, translator, newspaper columnist, and mystery writer.
            Betty Jean has written numerous books, including the biography of a remarkable human, titled Eugene Odum: Ecosystem Ecologist and Environmentalist, the shorter biography of a remarkable bird, titled Conversations with Cosmo: At Home with an African Grey Parrot, and a collection of essays titled Ruminations on a Parrot Named Cosmo.
            Since retirement she has published seven Witherston Murder Mysteries--Downstream, Fairfield’s Auction, Dam Witherston,  Saxxons in Witherston, Death in Potter's Woods, Life and Death at Zoo Arroyo, and Parrot Sanctuary--as well as a thriller about genome therapy titled Aldo.