Joan Colebrook (Heale) (1910–1991) was an Australian American writer and journalist.
Joan Moffat Heale was born on 31 August 1910[1] and grew up on a dairy farm in Queensland, Australia.
[2][3] She married Mulford Albert Colebrook in 1933[4] and moved to England before settling permanently in Cape Cod in the US in the late 1940s.
She wrote journalism for magazines including Commentary, The New Republic and The New Yorker.
[5][2] One of her best received works was The Cross of Latitude, based on her experience as a social-worker and women's prison officer.