Jenifer Wayne (1917–1982) (born Anne Jenifer Wayne) was a British author of

children's literature Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader. Children's ...

. She graduated in 1936 from

Somerville College, Oxford Somerville College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. Among its alumnae have been Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Dorothy Hodgkin, Ir ...

. After leaving Oxford, she worked on the staff of the

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as writer/producer. In 1948, she married Cecil R. Hewitt (C. H. Rolph of the New Statesman) and became a freelance writer for Home and Overseas Services. They had three children, the eldest of whom, Deborah, won a scholarship to Somerville. They lived in Surrey. Her books included the ''Sprout'' series, and ''The Day the Ceiling Fell Down'' and ''The Night the Rain Came In'', which featured the same group of three children. Her works have been translated into German, Dutch and Latvian.

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1917 births 1982 deaths British children's writers Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford {{UK-writer-stub