Joan Constance Anne Henry was an English novelist, playwright and screenwriter. A former débutante from an illustrious family, she was jailed for passing a fraudulent cheque in 1951 and her best-known works were based on her experiences in prison. She wrote the semi-autobiographical Who Lie in Gaol, filmed as The Weak and the Wicked, and the novel Yield to the Night, the basis for the film starring Diana Dors.
- Occupation
- screenwriter
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- April 8, 1914
- Died
- 2000
