![]() ![]() ![]() After the war, she finishes her university education, then works under the tutelage of her mentor. She interrupts her education to work as a nurse in the Great War, falls in love and suffers her own losses. A gifted working class girl in class-conscious England, she receives an unusual education thanks to the patronage of her employer, who had taken her on as a housemaid. Maisie Dobbs is a private investigator who untangles painful and shameful secrets stemming from war experiences. Winspear stated that her childhood awareness of her grandfather's suffering in World War I led to an interest in that period. She emigrated to the United States in 1990. She was educated at the University of London's Institute of Education and then worked in academic publishing, higher education and in marketing communications. Winspear was born on 30 April 1955, and raised in Cranbrook, in Kent. She has won several mystery writing awards for books in this popular series. Jacqueline Winspear (born 30 April 1955) is a mystery writer, author of the Maisie Dobbs series of books exploring the aftermath of World War I. ![]()
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