Barbara Mary Vernon (25 July 1916 – 16 April 1978) was an Australian playwright, screenwriter, editor and radio announcer.
Her plays included The Passionate Pianist and The Multi-Coloured Umbrella.
[1] Vernon was born on 25 July 1916, Inverell, New South Wales the youngest child of four to medical practitioner Murray Menzies Vernon and Constance Emma Elliot (née Barling).
She attended the New England School in Armidale, New South Wales, before entering the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force in 1943, rising to rank of Corporal, before being discharged in 1946.
Vernon retired in 1976 and died from cardiomyopathy in Darlinghurst, New South Wales on 16 April 1978 at St Vincent's Hospital aged 61.