Jean Francis Webb

Background

Jean Francis Webb was born on October 1, 1910, in White Plains, New York, United States.

Education

In 1931, Webb received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College.

Career

Webb held various "bread and butter" jobs from 1931 to 1934, served as a teacher of adult courses in professional writing at the University of Hawaii in 1940, and was a guest lecturer at Columbia University and Amherst College.

Webb wrote mystery, historical, romance, adventure, children's, and other genre-related fiction. His first book was Love They Must (1933). His last two books were Revenge of the Heart (Pioneer Communications Network, 1986) and Plots and Pans: Recipes and Antidotes from the Mystery Writers of America, co-written with Nancy Webb (1989). He also penned novelizations of various screenplays, including those for Little Women, Anna Lucasta, and King Solomon's Mines.

He wrote short stories, novelettes, and articles for Cosmopolitan, Liberty, Collier's, Argosy, Writer's Digest, Show, and other popular magazines, as well as a series of detective stories under the pseudonym Roswell Brown for The Shadow pulp magazine during the 1930s and 1940s. He and his wife also scripted a daily radio program, Chick Carter, Boy Detective, in 1944-1945.

Achievements

• Jean Webb is best known as a writer of mystery, historical, romance, adventure, children's, and other genre-related fiction, many of them under pseudonyms, and a few co-written with his wife, Nancy Webb. He produced some forty books over his career, including a popular series of nurse romances, written under the pseudonym Ethel Hamill and published during the heyday of the modern gothic in the 1950s by Avalon Books.
  
  He contributed more than three hundred short stories, novelettes, and articles to Cosmopolitan, Liberty, Collier's, Argosy, Writer's Digest, Show, and other popular magazines.
  
  He and his wife received the New York Herald Tribune Honor Book Award for Kaiulani: Crown Princess of Hawaii in 1962.

Works

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  • Roses From a Haunted Garden 1971
  • Hawaiian Islands: From Monarchy to Democracy 1959
  • Somewhere Within This House 1973
  • Kaiulani: Crown Princess Of Hawaii 1963
  • Bluegrass Doctor 1953
  • Revenge of the Heart 1986
  • Death Stalks the Jury 2009
  • Is This Coffin Taken? 1978
  • The Bride of Cairngore 1974
  • No Match for Murder 1942

Membership

Webb was a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sons of the Revolution, and Phi Delta Theta.

• president

  Lewisboro School League

  1947 - 1948

• secretary of trustees

  South Salem Library , United States

  1946 - 1971

Connections

Jean was married to Nancy Webb.

Wife:

Nancy Webb

References

• Contemporary Authors New Revision Series In response to the escalating need for up-to-date information on writers, Contemporary Authors New Revision Series (Volume 198) brings researchers the most recent data on the world's most popular authors.
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