![]() 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 fantasy novel The Wizard In the Woods. Her most famous novel is the Point Crime novel Dance with Death. She lives in a 300-year-old house in Croydon, south of London. She married a fellow student, Leonard Gregory, in 1967. ![]() She waited tables, scrubbed floors, sold bread at Woolworths, did ".a bit of nursing, a bit of translating, a bit of cooking." before enrolling to study drama at the Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art (1965–68). Having decided to make a career as a writer, she ran away from school and spent the next few years in a variety of jobs just to make a living. She wrote her first book when she was six years old and had her first book, Dance For Two published when she was sixteen. Jean Ure was born and brought up in a suburb of London and attended school in Croydon. ![]() ![]() She was married to Leonard Gregory until his death in 2020. Since then, she has published over 170 children's books, including the stories of Frankie Foster. ![]() Her first book, Dance For Two (1960), was published by John Goodchild Publishers when she was sixteen and still at school. Jean Ure (born 1 January 1943) is an English children's author. ![]()
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