Jessica Mann was a British writer. She died on July 10, 2018. She specialised in the mystery and suspense genres.
- Jessica Mann was born on September 13, 1937
- She died on July 10, 2018
- She was a British writer
- As a novelist she specialised in the mystery and suspense genres
- From 1971, 22 crime novels by her were published
- She also wrote several non-fiction books
- Including Out of Harm’s Way
- This book is an account of the overseas evacuation of children from Britain in World War II
- She was born in London
- Mann was educated at St Paul’s Girls’ School and Newnham College, Cambridge
- There she read Archaeology and Anglo-Saxon
- She graduated in 1959
- She attended the University of Leicester
- From which she had a degree in Law
- She wrote features, comment and reviews for the Literary Review magazine, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, Western Morning News, House & Garden and other publications
- She appeared on television programmes such as Question Time and represented the South West on radio’s Round Britain Quiz
- She lived near Truro in Cornwall
- She was married to the archaeologist and historian Charles Thomas until he died in 2016
- The couple married a week after Mann completed her Cambridge finals in 1959
- They had two sons and two daughters
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