Jeanne Munn Bracken

Jeanne Munn Bracken is an American author and a retired librarian. She is known for her non-fiction work, including Children With Cancer: A Comprehensive Reference Guide for Parents.

Biography Bracken graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1968 with a major in German Language and Literature and a minor in Speech and Drama. She earned her masters in Library Science from Simmons College in 1971. In addition to being a librarian, for over 22 years from the '80s through the 2000s. she wrote a weekly life-style column for the Littleton (MA) Independent and its sister newspapers which she were the core of Someday We’ll Laugh About This.

Bracken's daughter, Lisa, was diagnosed and successfully treated for cancer when she was a child. During this time, Bracken researched cancer which led to her writing her first book.

Writing Bracken's guide, Children With Cancer: A Comprehensive Reference Guide for Parents (2010) was called "Highly recommended" by Library Journal in 2010. The Journal of the Medical Library Association wrote that the format of the book "works very well" and that the references in the book are excellent. The Journal wrote that it is "an essential part of the collection of pediatric hospital libraries." The Los Angeles Times wrote "Her perceptive suggestions help the reader calm the small child who is afraid of yet another need, aid the angry adolescent with a puffy face and bald head, give the exhausted parent permission to take the night off." Best Feature article (2d and 3d prizes: New England Press Association)