Biography
Jacqueline Baird was born on 1 April in Northumberland, the Border County of England. She had her first success as a writer at the age of 11, when she won the first prize in the Nature Diary of the year competition at school.
At 18, she met her husband Jim, they married eight years later. They have two grown sons and live in Northumberland.
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