Jacqueline Winspear

Fast Facts:

• Jacqueline Winspear was born and raised in Kent, England.
  
  
• Jacqueline Winspear emigrated to the United States in 1990.
  
  
• Winspear has worked in publishing, education, marketing and business prior to becoming a novelist.
  
  
• Prior to writing novels, Jacqueline contributed to journals covering educational issues and women's issues.
  
  
• Jacqueline became interested in wars because her grandfather was injured during the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Her interest grew as she became an adult and this period of history became a backdrop in her Maisie Dobbs series.
  
  
• Jacqueline Winspear's first novel, MAISIE DOBBS, was awarded the Agatha Award for Best First Novel and the Macavity Award for Best First Novel.
  
  
• MAISIE DOBBS was one of only two debut novels nominated in the Edgar Award's Best Novel category. The novel was also named a New York Times Notable Book 2003 and a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Mystery 2003.
  
  
• Film and General Productions in the UK has acquired Winspear's Maisie Dobbs series for possible television series adaptation.
  
  

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