About Judith Cook
Lived 1933 – 2004 (aged 70). Judith Cook was a British novelist.
Judith Cook (9 July 1933 – 12 May 2004) was an anti-nuclear campaigner, historical novelist, journalist and lecturer in theatre at the University of Exeter. She wrote several mysteries based on the casebooks of Dr Simon Forman, an Elizabethan doctor and astrologer.
Through the columns of The Guardians women's page, edited by Mary Stott, she founded the anti-nuclear organisation Voice of Women after the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, at a time when the world seemed on the verge of nuclear war.
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Who was Judith Cook?
British writer (1933-2004)
When was Judith Cook born?
Judith Cook was born on 9 July 1933.
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Judith Cook died on 12 May 2004.
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Judith Cook was a novelist.
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Judith Cook was British.
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