Maysie Coucher Greig

Maysie Coucher Greig (pen names, Jennifer Ames, Ann Barclay, and Mary Douglas Warren; 2 August 1901 – 10 June 1971) was an Australian writer of romantic novels and thrillers.

[1][2] In the 1930s, she wrote under the names Jennifer Ames, Ann Barclay and Mary Douglas Warren and she was considered the most prolific woman novelist of the time.

After a period of traveling to places such as Yugoslavia and Albania, she settled in England and began writing again; by 1934, she was publishing up to six books a year and was considered the most prolific woman novelist of the day.

Her books were published by Collins in England and Doubleday in New York and they were translated into French, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish and Icelandic.

Some of these novels had Australian settings, including One Room for His Highness (1947), French Girl in Love (1963) and Doctor on Wings (1966).