Margaret Potter , née Margaret Newman, was born in 1926 in Middlesex. She was educated at Harrow County School for girls and gained a BA and MA from St. Hugh’s College, Oxford.
Before writing, she worked a variety of jobs including teaching in Egypt, editing a children’s magazine in London, and advising the Citizen’s Advice Bureau in Twickenham. She published her first novel as Margaret Newman, a mystery novel entitled Murder to Music .
Newman continued publishing novels until her death in 1998, under a variety of pseudonyms and encompassing multiple genres. As Anne Melville, she focused on historical novels, including the epic wartime saga Debutante . Over the course of her career she published fifty-five novels in romance, mystery, historical fiction and children’s.
