- Jean Ure
Jean Ure is an English children's author. She lives in a 300-year-old house in
Croydon , south ofLondon . Her most famousnovel is the Point Crime novel "Dance with Death". Her other novels include "Plague 99 ", "After the Plague" (previously published as "Come Lucky April"), "Big Tom", "Family Fan Club" and "Shrinking Violet" as well as the fantasty novelThe Wizard In the Woods . Jean has now become very popular with female teenage readers around Britain with novels such as "Shrinking Violet", "Family Fan Club" and "Passion Flower".Jean's novel, "Secret Meeting", publicises the danger of
chat room s and theinternet . In a 2006 survey inUK girls magazine Mizz, they noted that Jean Ure,Jacqueline Wilson andJ. K. Rowling were the most famous girls authors in the United Kingdom. Jean Ure has no children and lives with her partner and a zoo of animals in her London home. She says that writing her stories on her computer, drives her 'bonkers'.Ure also translated novels of
World War II writerSven Hassel from his Danish to English. Long time journalist and Hassel criticErik Haaest has been seeking Ure's whereabouts to discuss with her his contentions of fraudulence concerning the DaneFact|date=August 2008.External links
* [http://www.jeanure.com Author's website]
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