Oakley, J. L.

J.L. Oakley is an award winning writer of memoir essays and historical articles. Her work appears in A Cup of Comfort series and at Historylink.org. She grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, listening to her mother's stories of life in early 20th century Idaho. Several of them were about the boys from "New Joisey" occupying a side camp up the creek from her uncle's ranch.