Jean Gould, (1910-1992) who wrote biographies of Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Amy Lowell, as well as the artist Winslow Homer, died in Perrysburg, Ohio.
Gould was born in Greenville, Ohio, and grew up in Toledo. She attended the University of Michigan, where Frost was one of her teachers. She received a bachelor's degree from the University of Toledo.
In the early 1950's, after writing several literary biographies for young readers, she moved to New York City, where she lived until returned to Ohio. She did editorial work for the national education office of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union and for a time worked as a researcher for the National Opinion Research Center in Princeton, N.J.
She continued to write juvenile biographies, notably Young Mariner Melville (1956) and That Dunbar Boy"(1958), about the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. Her first work for adults was A Good Fight: The Story of F. D. R.'s Conquest of Polio (1960).
