Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, probably her most beloved work, is an irreverent collection of essays on parenting, family life, and the theatre industry. Jean Kerr, an Irish-American author and playwright, was famous for several plays, books, and several musicals. (I’ve seen him hit as many as five, but that’s championship stuff and he can’t do it every time.)” -Please Don’t Eat the Daisies On the other hand, he is unable to get from the living room into the front hall without bumping into at least two pieces of furniture. With a garden rake in one hand he scampers up a tree, out across a long branch, and down over the stone wall – as graceful and deft as a squirrel. Because they are impossible, that’s why…You take Christopher – and you may he’s a slightly used eight-year-old… I watch him from the kitchen window. Several collections were published of her many humorous magazine essays, the best known being the bestseller Please Don't Eat the Daisies.“We are being very careful with our children.They’ll never have to pay a psychiatrist twenty-five dollars an hour to find out why we rejected them.
She subsequently wrote several highly successful plays, among them the Tony Award-winning King of Hearts and the comedy Mary, Mary, which ran for more than 1,500 performances. They collaborated on Goldilocks, a short-lived Broadway musical. She later married Kerr who went on to become a prominent New York drama critic. She received her master's degree from the Catholic University of America where she met then-professor Walter Kerr. Jean Kerr was an Irish American author and playwright. Alas, I am behind on so many deadlines right this minute that I don't dare indulge myself in what might just possibly be more fun. Kerr writes to Philip Dunning, editor of The Dramatists Bulletin, that she loves the Bulletin and would like to write something for it. 50 words typed on an 8 inch high by 6 inch wide sheet of her personalized letterhead with her address printed at the top.
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