2 Quotes & Sayings By S N Parker
S. N. Parker was born in England in 1894, and moved with her family to the U.S. in 1908
She married James Parker when she was 19, and they had two daughters, Jean and Mary. After her husband's death, she started writing humorous short stories in 1936, under the pen-name "John A." Her first book, The House in the Water (1941), was the first in a long series of popular mystery novels featuring one of her most famous characters, Jane Marple, who was created around the same time that Parker started writing mysteries. Parker continued writing mysteries under her own name for 30 years.