Kaye Webb

British journalist
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IntroBritish journalist
PlacesUnited Kingdom Great Britain
wasJournalist
Work fieldJournalism
Gender
Female
Birth26 January 1914
Death16 January 1996 (aged 82 years)
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Biography

Kaye Webb, MBE (26 January 1914 – 16 January 1996), was a British journalist and publisher.
Webb was editor of Puffin Books between 1961 and 1979, and in 1967 founded the Puffin 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 editor of Puffin Post from 1967 to 1989.
Each of her three marriages ended in divorce. Her third marriage (1948–1967) was to Ronald Searle, who was the father of her son and daughter.
Kaye Webb's archive and working library can be found in the Seven Stories centre for children's books collection, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, and can be searched online.[1].

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