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 Jean Kerr ( 1922-07-10 – 2003-01-05 ) was an American author and playwright. Unsourced Children are different — mentally, physically, spiritually, quantitatively, qualitatively; and furthermore, they're all a bit nuts. Hope is the feeling you have... 
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Jean Kerr (July 10, 1922 [some sources cite 1923, but the Social Security Death Index gives her date of birth as 1922]—January 5, 2003) was an American author and playwright. Born Bridget Jean Collins in Scranton, Pennsylvania, her best-known book...
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 The Washington Post Playwright Jean Kerr
01/08/2003: 348 words, approx. 1 pages Jean Kerr, 80, the former Washington housewife who parlayed her gift for finding humor in married life into blockbuster plays such as "Mary, Mary" and bestsellers that included "Please Don't Eat the Daisies," died Jan. 5 at a hospital in White Plains, N.Y. She... summary from source:
The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC) JEAN KERR DAVIDSON BRANDON.(Triad)
07/12/2007: 455 words, approx. 2 pages HIGH POINT -- Jean Kerr Davidson Brandon passed away on Wednesday, July 11, 2007. A funeral service will be held 2 p.m. Friday, July 13, at First United Methodist Church Chapel by the Rev. Fran Moran. Entombment will follow in the Chapel of... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Caitlin Flanagan to Housewives: Please Eat the Damn Daisies
4/9/2006: 1,146 words, approx. 4 pages“That’s Caitlin Flanagan,” a female journalist hissed to me at a party in Los Angeles, indicating the famously self-proclaimed anti-feminist—then not yet a staff writer for The New Yorker—perched in the general vicinity of a glinting swimming pool. One got the feeling she wouldn’t have... summary from source:
The New York Observer Caitlin Flanagan to Housewives: Please Eat the Damn Daisies
4/9/2006: 1,148 words, approx. 4 pages “That’s Caitlin Flanagan,” a female journalist hissed to me at a party in Los Angeles, indicating the famously self-proclaimed anti-feminist—then not yet a staff writer for The New Yorker—perched in the general vicinity of a glinting swimming pool. One got the feeling she wouldn’t...
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 Critical Essay by Phyllis Theroux
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Jean Kerr is one of the first women to hitch herself up to a typewriter and spin the straw of her not completely suburban existence into publishing gold. She is now as she was back when her children were eating the daisies, an intelligent, irreverent, articulate writer, and ["How I Got to Be Perfect"] is exactly what the public has come to expect of her. Exactly! Here is a sample of her chapter headings: "Partying Is Such Sweet Sorrow," "My Marshmallow Fudge Wonder Diet,&#... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Harold Clurman
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[If "King of Hearts," a] comedy by Jean Kerr and Eleanor Brooke …, achieves success, it will be because it contains some of the funniest lines to be heard on any New York stage today. If it should fail, it will be because of something discomfiting in it. I was almost constantly amused by it. But toward the end of the first act I began to be reminded of an experience I had long ago on reading a play by the English humorist Saki. The Saki play was hilarious from first to last, with an inc... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Jean Holzhauer
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Jean Kerr, who is in the process of becoming one of the country's foremost humorists, would no doubt stand up and scream bloody murder at any implication that her work is sociological source material. Well, scream away, dear Mrs. Kerr. Because it is. (p. 393)
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