Jessie Munro

Jessie Munro (born 1946) is a New Zealand writer, biographer and French teacher. She won the Book of the Year at the 1997 Montana New Zealand Book Awards for her biography of Suzanne Aubert.

Biography Munro was born in 1946, and was raised on a farm south of Clevedon. She was educated at Papakura High School, and went on to study languages—French, Latin and Italian—and history at the University of Auckland. The Story of Suzanne Aubert was later followed by Letters on the Go which collects letters written by Aubert over her long life to friends, bishops and politicians.

Awards and prizes Jessie Munro's biography of Suzanne Aubert, The Story of Suzanne Aubert, won Book of the Year and the New Zealand Society of Authors E.H. McCormick Award for Best First Book of Non-Fiction at the 1997 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.