Jean S. MacLeod (20 January 1908 – 11 April 2011) was a prolific British writer of over 130 romance novels from 1936 to 1996, she also used the pseudonym of Catherine Airlie.
Her education began at Bearsden Academy, continued in Swansea and ended in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
She moved to North Yorkshire, England to marry with Major Lionel Walton on 1 January 1935,[3] an electricity board executive, who died in 1995.
MacLeod started writing stories for the magazine The People's Friend, before sold her first romance novel in 1936.
MacLeod was member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, where she met the mediatic writer Barbara Cartland, who was not too friendly.