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Jean Kerr

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born

July 10, 1922 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, The United States

died

January 05, 2003

gender

female

genre

Humor, Literature & Fiction, Theater

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Jean Kerr was an American author and playwright, best known for her humorous bestseller, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, and the plays King of Hearts and Mary, Mary. She was married to drama critic Walter Kerr and was the mother of six children.

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Books by Jean Kerr

Average rating: 3.79 · 750 ratings · 75 reviews · 15 distinct works

	Please Don't Eat the Daisies 3.76 avg rating — 555 ratings — published 1953 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Snake Has All the Lines 3.99 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1960 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Penny Candy 3.93 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1970 — 2 editions	My rating:
	How I Got to Be Perfect 3.93 avg rating — 41 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Mary, Mary 3.55 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Lunch hour: A comedy 2.62 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1982 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Finishing Touches 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1974 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Mystic Seafood: Great Recipes, History & Seafaring Lore from Mystic Seaport by Jean Kerr, Spencer Smith 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Mary, Mary and Other Plays 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1964	My rating:
	Union Oyster House Cookbook: Recipes & History from America's Oldest Restaurant 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007	My rating:

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Quotes by Jean Kerr

“I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?”
― Jean Kerr

tags: beauty

41 people liked it

“Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.”
― Jean Kerr

tags: clothes , conversation , gender , humor , language , men , socks , speaking , women

28 people liked it

“Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. ”
― Jean Kerr

tags: men

26 people liked it

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