Kaye Webb
Kaye Webb, MBE (26 January 1914 – 16 January 1996), was a British journalist and publisher.
Webb was editor of Puffin Books between 1961 and 1979, and in 1967 founded the Puffin Club, which she ran until 1981. As a journalist she worked on publications including Picture Post, Lilliput and the News Chronicle, and later edited the Young Elizabethan. She was editor of Puffin Post from 1967 to 1989.[1]
Each of her three marriages ended in divorce. Her third marriage (1948–1967) was to Ronald Searle, who was the father of her son and daughter.[2]
Kaye Webb's archive and working library can be found in the Seven Stories centre for children's books collection, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, and can be searched online..
Notes
- ↑ Julia Eccleshare Obituary: Kaye Webb, The Independent, 18 January 1996.
- ↑ Julia Eccleshare Obituary: Kaye Webb, The Independent, 18 January 1996.
Further reading
- Valerie Grove (2010), So much more to tell. London: Viking. ISBN 978-1-84614-200-0 (Biography)
- Felicity Trotman, "Webb, (Kathleen) Kaye (1914–1996)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Accessed 6 Feb 2008.
External links
- Helen Brown, Kaye Webb's Puffin Adventure, Daily Telegraph, 30 April 2010.
- Kathleen (Kaye) Webb, Seven Stories archive index
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