Jenifer Wayne

{{Short description|British writer (1917–1982)}}

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Jenifer Wayne (1917–1982) (born Anne Jenifer Wayne) was a British author of children's literature. She graduated in 1936 from Somerville College, Oxford.{{sfn|Batson|2008|p=210}}

After leaving Oxford, she worked on the staff of the BBC as writer/producer. In 1948, she married Cecil R. Hewitt (C. H. Rolph of the New Statesman) and became a freelance writer for Home and Overseas Services. They had three children, the eldest of whom, Deborah, won a scholarship to Somerville. They lived in Surrey.

Her books included the Sprout series, and The Day the Ceiling Fell Down and The Night the Rain Came In, which featured the same group of three children.{{cite web |url=http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/27949.Jenifer_Wayne |title=Jenifer Wayne |publisher=Goodreads |accessdate=29 March 2016}} Her works have been translated into German, Dutch and Latvian.