and the following year she was sent to Notre Dame, Indiana to be educated at Saint Mary's College. At St. Mary's she was president of the senior class and editor of the school paper, The Marionette. After graduating in 1930 she attended Webster College in Webster Groves, Missouri, a Catholic women's institution operated by the Sisters of Loretto. In June 1936 she was married in Owensboro to John Thomas Rice of Philadelphia, a businessman in the textile and leather industries. A gushing newspaper account described the bride as "an unusually charming and attractive young woman." They moved to Toledo, Ohio where in 1937 they had a son, and Jane took up writing while living there. After living in Chicago, Cleveland, and Darien, Connecticut, in 1960 the Rices settled in Greensboro, North Carolina, where John was a manager at a textile firm. They lived there for the remainder of their lives. A devout Roman Catholic, she strongly opposed abortion. Her husband preceded her in death. They were survived by their son. Rice died at her home in Greensboro, North Carolina in 2003, one month before her 90th birthday. References External links "The Refugee" – Story of the Week from the Library of America 1913 births 2003 deaths American horror writers American science fiction writers American women short story writers Writers from Greensboro, North Carolina Roman Catholic writers Unknown (magazine) Women science fiction and fantasy writers Women horror writers American women novelists Chapbook writers 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American short story writers Novelists from North Carolina 21st-century American women