About Jane Belk Moncure

Jane Belk Moncure (December 16, 1926 – July 30, 2013) was an American author of early childhood non-fiction, fiction and poetry. She also wrote under the names Bruce Wannamaker, Mary Thornton Blanton, and Jennie Davis.

Moncure lived in Virginia and North Carolina. For thirty-five years she worked in early childhood education, as well as wrote children's books. Her husband, James Moncure, was vice president of academics and student affairs at Elon University from 1974–1982, and their son James Moncure II served on the board of advisors to the business school. James Moncure helped establish the university's first learning resource center, and she donated a collection of all her published books to the School of Education, where they are in the Curriculum Resources Center. In her final years, Moncure lived in Fallston, North Carolina, and died surrounded by family in Mount Holly, North Carolina.