Jane Mersky Leder was born in Detroit, Michigan. The "Motor City" and original home of Motown have driven her writing from the start. A "Baby Boomer" who came of age in the Sixties, Leder is fascinated by the complexities of relationships between generations, between genders, and between our personal and public personas.

Dead Serious, a book about teen suicide, was named a YASD Best Book for Young Adults and a Shelf Unbound Notable Indie.  The Sibling Connection: How Siblings Shape Our Lives is an interactive ebook for adults that uses case histories to survey the sibling relationship from childhood to old age. Thanks For The Memories Love, Sex and World War II explores the effects of war on relationships between men and women. 

Leder currently spends her time in Evanston, Illinois, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico