Ayer, Jean

Jean Ayer was educated at Barnard College and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She was a translator of Portuguese and French for MacMillan, Abrams, Pocket Books, and Penguin; a cartoonist for Esquire; and fashion illustrator for major New York newspapers as well as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Redbook, Mademoiselle, Town & Country, and the New Yorker. She married and moved to Maine, where she transcribed her mother's stories of her childhood in West Virginia at the dawn of the twentieth century. These were later published, reworked as fiction, as Tales of Chinkapin Creek and