Mavis Jukes

Mavis Jukes was born on May 3, 1947, in Nyack, New York. She is the daughter of Thomas Hughes Jukes, a famous molecular biologist and nutritionist, Before becoming an author, Jukes was a licensed California attorney and a teacher. Jukes became inactive as an attorney in 1984. She lives with her husband, the sculptor and painter Robert H. Hudson, and their daughters in Cotati, Sonoma County, California. ==Publications==

Fiction • No One Is Going to Nashville (1983) • Lights Around the Palm (1987) • Getting Even (1988) • Wild Iris Bloom (1993) • ''I'll See You in My Dreams'' (1993) • Losers Weepers (1997) • Expecting the Unexpected (1999) • Planning the Impossible (1999) • Cinderella 2000 (2001) • Blackberries in the Dark (2002) • ''You're a Bear'' (2003) • Like Jake and Me (2005) • Smoke (2009) ;As Iris Hudson • Mac and the Messmaker, illus. Jerry SMith (New York: Kane Press, 2005), • Ask Mia, illus. Blanche Sims (Kane, 2006), Nonfiction • ''Ladies' Business'' (1995) • ''It's A Girl Thing'' (1996) • ''Growing Up: It's a Girl Thing'' (1998) • The Guy Book (2004) • ''Be Healthy! It's A Girl Thing'' with Lillian Wai-Yin Cheung (2003) ==References==