Jean Kerr
| Jean Kerr | |
|---|---|
| Born | Bridget Jean Collins July 10, 1922 Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Died | January 5, 2003 (aged 80) White Plains, New York, USA |
| Occupation | Author Playwright |
| Nationality | Irish-American |
| Notable awards | Tony Award (1961, for King of Hearts) |
| Spouse | Walter Kerr |
Jean Kerr (July 10, 1922 – January 5, 2003) was an Irish-American author and playwright born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and best known for her humorous bestseller, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, and the plays King of Hearts and Mary, Mary.
Born Bridget Jean Collins in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Tom and Kitty Collins, Kerr grew up on Electric Street in Scranton, and attended Marywood Seminary, the topic of her humorous short story "When I was Queen of the May." She received a Bachelor's Degree from Marywood College in Scranton and later attended The Catholic University of America, where she received her master's degree and met then-professor Walter Kerr. She later married Kerr, who went on to become a well-known New York drama critic, and they had six children—Christopher, twins Colin and John, Gilbert, Gregory, and Kitty. The Kerrs bought a home in New Rochelle, New York, where Jean wrote King of Hearts, before settling in Larchmont. She died in White Plains, New York, of pneumonia, in 2003.
With her husband, Kerr wrote Goldilocks (1958), a short-lived Broadway musical comedy about the early days of silent film. She wrote several highly successful plays, including the Tony Award-winning King of Hearts, as well as the comedy Mary, Mary, which ran for 1,572 performances.
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