Stella Marjorie Jones (née Claridge, 5 April 1904 – 6 June 1991) was a New Zealand playwright and writer.
[1] She grew up in a variety of small towns around the country, as her father was a newspaper editor and worked on a number of regional and small-town papers.
[1] Jones began her career writing short stories and articles which were published in the literary journal Landfall.
[2] However, she is best known for writing the successful play The Tree (1957), the story of ageing parents and their three daughters, one of whom returns to the family home after a 15-year absence.
[2][6] She also published two papers in the Auckland-Waikato Historical Journal in 1979 and 1980, analysing her father's contributions to the development of newspapers in New Zealand.