Jo Ellen Capps LayneJo Ellen Capps-Layne is the author of the novel Laughter at Dawn as well as a short story, Seasons, and the article American Family. She based this novel on her thirty-seven years of experience in the mental health field as a social worker, and she hs drawn on her knowledge of psychological disorders as a basis for her creative works. She also published American Family in Woman's World about her personal experience of placing her mother in a nursing home. She graduated from the College of William & Mary in Virginia. Read More Read Less