Writing about books was Joanne's second career; she previously worked in accounting and administrative jobs, but was saved from a lifetime of this by breaking her hip. She wrote a weekly local writers' Q&A and book review for the DC Examiner and reviewed books for the Chicago Sun-Times, the Washington Post, BookPage, BookBrowse and other publications. Joanne died of breast cancer in December 2009.
BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.