Jeann Beattie (May 21, 1922 – September 17, 2005) was a Canadian novelist and journalist.
[1] She was most noted for her 1950 novel Blaze of Noon, which won that year's Ryerson Fiction Award.
[2][3] Originally from St. Catharines, Ontario, Beattie began her career working as a clerical staffer for the St. Catharines Standard in 1940, before leaving in 1944 to study journalism at Columbia University.
[1] She was particularly known for her advocacy journalism for fairer treatment of young people in the juvenile detention system, reflected in her 1971 non-fiction book And the Tiger Leaps.
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