Jacqueline Frances Kent (born 1947) is an Australian journalist, biographer and non-fiction writer.
[3] Kent wrote her first book, Out of the Bakelite Box: The Heyday of Australian Radio, while working as a freelance editor.
Published in 1983 by Angus & Robertson, it was described by Maurice Dunlevy in The Canberra Times: "This popular social history of Australian radio after World War II is a classic piece of book journalism" and "a buzz from beginning to end".
[7] In 1985 she met Kenneth Cook, subject of her 2019 memoir, Beyond Words, and author of Wake in Fright.
[10] In 2007 Kent was awarded a Doctorate of Creative Arts from the University of Technology Sydney for her thesis, "Artistry Under Oath: Biography and the life story of Hephzibah Menuhin".