Jean Saunders
Jean Innes Saunders | |
|---|---|
| Born | Jean Innes 8 February 1932 London, England |
| Died | 3 August 2011 (aged 79) Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Spouse | Geoff Saunders |
| Children | 3 |
| Writing career | |
| Pen name | Jean Saunders, Jean Innes, Rowena Summers, Sally Blake, Jodi Nicol, Rachel Moore |
| Period | 1974–2010 |
| Genres | romance, suspense |
| Website | jeansaunders |
Jean Saunders (née Innes; 8 February 1932 – 3 August 2011) was a British writer of romance novels from 1974 to 2010. She wrote under her married and maiden names, and also under the pseudonyms of Rowena Summers, Sally Blake, and Rachel Moore. She also wrote an erotic novel as Jodi Nicol and also published writing books.
Jean Saunders was the seventeenth chairman (1993–95) of the Romantic Novelists' Association, and she was the Vice-Chairman of Swanwick writers' summer school. She was a member of the Romance Writers of America, the Crime Writers' Association and the West Country Writers' Association.
Biography
Jean Innes was born on 8 February 1932 in London, England, but she lived in the West Country almost all her life. She married Geoff Saunders, her childhood sweetheart, and they had three children.
After the publication of her first novel, Jean began a career as a magazine writer and published around 600 short stories. In the 1970s she started to publish gothic romance novels under her married and maiden name. In the 1980s she created two pseudonyms, Rowena Summers and Sally Blake, to write historical romances, her most popular works. In 1991 her novel The Bannister Girls was shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of Year award. In 2004, she began to use the pen name Rachel Moore.
She lived in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, where she wrote full-time.
She died on Wednesday 3 August 2011, after contracting an illness on a holiday earlier that year, after being rushed to Weston General Hospital.
References and sources
- 1 2 Weston Mercury Article, archived from the original on 13 September 2016, retrieved 8 February 2012
- ↑ Past RNA Officers, archived from the original on 11 March 2016, retrieved 10 January 2010
- 1 2 3 Jean Saunders's Webpage, archived from the original on 30 December 2010
- ↑ Jean Saunders at fantasticfiction
- ↑ Jean Innes at fantasticfiction, archived from the original on 17 October 2015, retrieved 10 January 2010
- ↑ Rowena Summers at fantasticfiction, archived from the original on 12 April 2010, retrieved 10 January 2010
- 1 2 Sally Blake at fantasticfiction, archived from the original on 9 March 2010, retrieved 10 January 2010
