Olive Muriel Cook (20 February 1912 – 2 May 2002), was an English writer and artist who published county guides, as well as writing various books accompanied by the work of her husband, the photographer Edwin Smith.
She won scholarships to The Perse School and Newnham College, Cambridge, where she earned a bachelor's degree in modern languages.
She moved to the National Gallery, where she was employed as supervisor of publications, under Kenneth Clark, and was involved in the removal of its collections to Blaenau Ffestiniog in anticipation of World War II.
In 1948 she wrote the guidebook Suffolk which was illustrated by Rowland Suddaby (part of the Vision of England series), and in 1953 the Cambridgeshire: Aspects of a County in 1953.
[1][4] Cook shared a house on Church Row in Hampstead with fellow artist Malvina Cheek in the late 1940s.