Jane Scovell

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Jane Scovell
Born Brockton, Massachusetts, U.S.
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Jane Scovell (born in Brockton, Massachusetts) is an American author, journalist and playwright. [1]

She is the author of collaborative autobiographies with Marilyn Horne, [2] Elizabeth Taylor, [3] Kitty Dukakis, [4] Ginger Rogers, [5] Cheryl Landon Wilson (Michael Landon), [6] Maureen Stapleton, [7] Kathy Levine, [8] Petra Nemcova [9] and Tim Conway. [10] She has also written biographies of Oona O’Neill Chaplin [11] and Samuel Ramey. [12]

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