- Kaye Webb
Kaye Webb (26 January, 1914 – 16 January, 1996) was a British journalist and publisher. She was editor of
Puffin Books between 1961 and 1979, and in 1967 founded thePuffin Club , which she ran until 1981. As a journalist she worked on publications including "Picture Post ", "Lilliput" and the "News Chronicle ", and later edited the "Young Elizabethan ". She was married three times, her third marriage (1948–67) being toRonald Searle .
Kaye Webb's archive and working library can be found in theSeven Stories, the Centre for Children's Books collection, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, and can be searched online. [http://collection.sevenstories.org.uk/Dserve/Dserve.exe?dsqIni=dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=(RefNo='kw')] .References
Felicity Trotman, "Webb, (Kathleen) Kaye (1914–1996)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/60767, accessed 6 Feb 2008]
External links
* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19960118/ai_n9637841 Obituary] , "
The Independent ", 18 January 1996.
* [http://collection.sevenstories.org.uk/Dserve/Dserve.exe?dsqIni=dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=7&dsqSearch=(((text)=%27kaye%27)AND((text)=%27webb%27)) Kathleen (Kaye) Webb] ,Seven Stories archive index
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