Mavis Jukes

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Mavis Jukes (born May 3, 1947 in Cincinatti, Ohio) is an American author of novels for children. Her first book, No One is Going to Nashville, was published in 1983. She received the Newbery Honor distinction in 1985 for her book Like Jake and Me. Her books are usually health-based. Before becoming an author, Jukes was a lawyer and a teacher. Mrs. Jukes lives with her husband, the sculptor and painter Robert Hudson, and their teenage daughters in Sonoma County, California.

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  • Mavis's father, Thomas Hughes Jukes, a famous molecular biologist and nutritionist, pioneered the use of methotrexate as a new cancer therapy, and pretty much single-handedly originated the concept of non-Darwinian evolution.
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