Jill MacLean
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Born | 1941 (age 82–83) England |
Pen name | Sandra Field Jill MacLean Jan MacLean (in collaboration) Jocelyn Haley |
Occupation | Novelist |
Nationality | Canadian |
Period | 1974-Present |
Genre | Romantic novel, children's fiction |
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Jill MacLean (born 1941 in England) is a Canadian writer of children's fiction books and, under the pseudonyms of Sandra Field, Jan MacLean and Jocelyn Haley, a popular author of over 70 romance novels for Harlequin Enterprises Ltd since 1974.
Jill MacLean was born in 1941 in England. In 1950, her family moved to Nova Scotia, Canada. [2]
She graduated in Science with honours from Dalhousie University. After her graduation, she married, and worked on metal-induced rancidity of cod fillets at the Fisheries Research Board[ citation needed], until her daughter was born. Following the birth of her son, she was employed by the pathology laboratory of Sydney City Hospital and the biology department of Mount Allison University. [2]
When her husband joined the armed forces as a chaplain, the family moved 3 times in the first 18 months. Her children went to the school, and she did not consider to work. She read a dozen romance novels, and began to write. When she was published in 1974, she decided to use pseudonyms to avoid that her congregation knew, that the chaplain's wife wrote romances. [3]
She published her romance novels as Sandra Field and Jocelyn Haley, and in collaboration with other Maritimer writer she wrote as Jan MacLean. [1] She also wrote under her real name a historical biography, a collection of poetry and now to please her grandson, Stuart, she writes also children's books.
Jill is a member of The Writers' Union of Canada. She completed a Masters in Theological Studies at the Atlantic School of Theology. [2]
Before she turned 40, her life was changed, she had lost three of the most important women in her life: her mother and sister to illness, and her seventeen-year-old daughter to a car accident. She separated from her husband in 1976 [1]
Jill now lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia, [2] is grandmother of two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. [3]