Author

Jacqueline Winspear

34 books, mostly mystery, for Harper and W. F. Howes Ltd, 2005–2024

Jacqueline Winspear is a New York Times bestselling author best known for the Maisie Dobbs historical mystery series, which follows a psychologist and investigator in the aftermath of World War I. Born and raised in Kent, England, she worked in academic publishing, higher education, and marketing communications before emigrating to the United States in 1990 and pursuing writing. Her novels draw extensively on the social and psychological effects of the two World Wars, and she has also published standalone fiction, nonfiction, memoir, essays, and journalism.