Jennifer Dawson
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with chilling insight about bleak places inhabited by bleak people; a critic called her the supreme chronicler of insanity. Besides her seven novels she published a volume of short stories and collaborated on a children's book.
achieved an early reputation as a novelist of madness, in tune with 1960s ideas about the brilliant and eccentric visions of insanity being damped and persecuted by conformist social institutions. A friend observed that she writes - BirthName: Jennifer Dawson
- Nickname: Jenny
- Married: Hinton