Jeanne Betancourt (born October 2, 1941, in Vermont) is an American author and television script writer best known for her Pony Pals series of books.
[citation needed] She lived across from a dairy farm; this rural setting would later influence many of her works.
[citation needed] When she grew too tall (at five feet, eight inches) to be a Rockette, she decided to become a religious sister in her junior year of high school.
[citation needed] Betancourt left the Sisters of Saint Joseph and moved to New York City, where she taught public high school.
[1] She currently lives either on the top floor of a sixteen-story building near the American Museum of Natural History in New York City or in her home in Connecticut.