Joan Smith

Canadian author of Regency romances and mysteries. A graduate of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and the Ontario College of Education, she taught French and English in high school and English in college before writing full time.

An admirer of Jane Austen and Lord Byron, she wrote Regencies (many with a mystery element) for Fawcett and Walker, contemporary mysteries for Berkley, historical mysteries for Fawcett and St. Martin's, and contemporary romances for Silhouette, publishing over a hundred books in all, some under the pen name Jennie Gallant. She lived in Georgetown, Ontario.