Novelist Anne Perry

Juliet Hulme was born in Blackheath, London in 1938. She survived the war but became seriously ill with tuberculosis and to keep her healthy she spent much of her childhood in warmer climates with a foster family. While in New Zealand with her biological family, she became fast friends with another girl named Pauline. The two were so close that when it appeared that one was to move far away, the two girls made a plan to kill Pauline's mother and run away to live in England. The crime did not go according to plan and after a brutal beating, Pauline's mother died. The two were caught, but did not get the death penalty because of how young they were.

Though her education was sparse Juliet loved books and it was easy for her to catch up. After her release from detention, Juliet worked many jobs and began to write. She was first published under the pen name Anne Perry in 1979, a book called "The Cater Street Hangman". After that she continued to write books based in the Victorian era. In 1994, the movie "Heavenly Creatures" was released, based on the murder Juliet and Pauline had committed. Now calling herself Anne, she joined the church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints.

Anne says on her website that you can see a lot of her personality and attitudes most clearly in her books "Tathea" and "Come Armageddon." She has happily been a member of the Mormon church for more than forty years.