HOLLACE AVA WEINER, a journalist turned historian, is a native of Washington, DC, and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Maryland. After college, she wrote for the Baltimore News American. While raising two children, she freelanced for the Washington Post until her family relocated to Texas. From 1986 to 1997, Hollace was a news and feature reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. She took a leave of absence in 1997 to complete Jewish Stars in Texas, had a publishing contract within a month, and never went back to daily journalism. Her first book, now in its 3rd printing and available in paperback, profiles trailblazing Lone Star rabbis.
HOLLACE AVA WEINER, a journalist turned historian and archivist, is a native of Washington, DC, and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Maryland. After college, she wrote for the Baltimore News American. While raising two children, she freelanced for the Washington Post until her family relocated to Texas. From 1986 to 1997, Hollace was a news and feature reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. She took a leave of absence in 1997 to complete Jewish Stars in Texas, had a publishing contract within a month, and never went back to daily journalism. Her first book, now in its 3rd printing and available in paperback, profiles trailblazing Lone Star rabbis.