Jean Ure is an English children's author. She lives in a 300-year-old house in Croydon, south of London. Her most famous novel 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. Jean has now become very popular with female teenage readers around Britain with novels such as Shrinking Violet, Family Fan Club and Passion Flower.
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Jean's novel, Secret Meeting, publicises the danger of chat rooms and the internet. In a 2006 survey in UK girls magazine Mizz, they noted that Jean Ure, Jacqueline Wilson and J.K. Rowling were the most famous girls authors in the United Kingdom. J.K. Rowling was also listed as being the most successful, famous children's author in the world, and it's history. Enid Blyton was listed as beind the second most popular. 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'. Also translated novels of world war two writer Sven Hassel from his Danish to English. Long time journalist and critic of Hassle's Erik Haaest has been seeking Ure's whereabouts to discuss with her his contentions of fraudulence concerning the Dane.
