Jessica Mann trivia: 20 facts about the British writer

Jessica Mann was a British writer. She died on July 10, 2018. She specialised in the mystery and suspense genres.

1. Jessica Mann was born on September 13, 1937
2. She died on July 10, 2018
3. She was a British writer
4. As a novelist she specialised in the mystery and suspense genres
5. From 1971, 22 crime novels by her were published
6. She also wrote several non-fiction books
7. Including Out of Harm’s Way
8. This book is an account of the overseas evacuation of children from Britain in World War II
9. She was born in London
10. Mann was educated at St Paul’s Girls’ School and Newnham College, Cambridge
11. There she read Archaeology and Anglo-Saxon
12. She graduated in 1959
13. She attended the University of Leicester
14. From which she had a degree in Law
15. 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
16. She appeared on television programmes such as Question Time and represented the South West on radio’s Round Britain Quiz
17. She lived near Truro in Cornwall
18. She was married to the archaeologist and historian Charles Thomas until he died in 2016
19. The couple married a week after Mann completed her Cambridge finals in 1959
20. They had two sons and two daughters