Jean Stubbs (23 October 1926 – 19 October 2012) was a British writer.

She was born Jean Yvonne Higham in Denton, Lancashire the daughter of Joseph Higham, a lecturer at Manchester University and Millies Darby, and was educated at Manchester High School for Girls, the Manchester School of Art and Loreburn Secretarial College in Manchester. Stubbs worked as a copywriter for Henry Melland from 1964 to 1966 and was a reviewer for Books and Bookmen from 1965 to 1976.[1][2] She died in the Helston district of Cornwall in 2012.

She received the Tom Gallon Trust Award for short story in 1964.[1] Her 1973 novel Dear Laura was nominated for an Edgar Award.

She was married twice: first to Peter Stubbs in 1948 and then to Roy Oliver in 1980.[1]

Selected works

References

  1. ^ a b c d Publications, Europa (2003). International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004. p. 533. ISBN 1857431790.
  2. ^ N. A. N. A (2015). Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. pp. 1361–64. ISBN 978-1349813667.
  3. ^ a b Husband, Janet; Husband, Jonathan F (2009). Sequels: An Annotated Guide to Novels in Series. p. 642. ISBN 978-0838909676.

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