Jane Lucas De Grummond is professor emerita of history at Louisiana State University. She is the author of Envoy to Caracas, The Baratarians and the Battle of New Orleans, and (with Beulah de Veriere Smith Watts) Solitude: Life on a Plantation in Louisiana, 1788-1968, and the editor of Caracas Diary, 1835-1840: The Journal of John G.A. Williamson, First Diplomatic Representative of the United States to Venezuela.
