Rebecca Johns grew up in northern Illinois and attended Antioch Community High School.
[3] Johns is the author of Icebergs (2006) (ISBN 1582344981), which opens in Canada during World War II with a harrowing plane crash.
Crewmember Walt Dunmore returns home, but his life and those of his family are forever altered by the damage the tragedy causes.
Icebergs follows Walt and his family from Canada to the United States through multiple generations, with the past casting a shadow over their lives.
Icebergs was a finalist for the 2007 Hemingway Foundation / PEN Award for first fiction[4] and a recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship.