Jean Stubbs

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. She died in the Helston district of Cornwall in 2012.

She received the Tom Gallon Trust Award for short story in 1964. 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. Provided by Wikipedia