Irene Byers

Amy Irene Byers (née Cookson; 7 June 1906 – 11 February 1992) was an English novelist, poet and children's writer who wrote around forty books mostly published in the 1950s and 1960s.

Life Byers was born in London, the daughter of William Barry Byers, a fishmonger from York, and his wife, Amy Martin.

In her early career Byers worked as a freelance journalist specialising in interviews with famous people such as John Gielgud and Sybil Thorndike. Byers gave up her career on marriage, around 1930, to Cyril Byers,

Her 1954 book Tim of Tamberly Forest was broadcast as "a serial play in four episodes" on BBC radio's Children's Hour in 1955. The original novel was reviewed by The Spectator:

Her book Jewel of the Jungle was broadcast on Children's Hour in July 1956.