and step-grandchildren Reef, Riley, John Jr. She is survived by her husband John, daughter Jessica, stepchildren Wendy and John, Jr. She died on Jof pneumonia due to complications from lung cancer. Gilmour, two of the directors of the said company, and signed by them as such directors, and by Edward Allison, the agent of the said. They later moved to Cornwallville in upstate New York where she happily tended to the garden she never had in the city until her death. She met John Johann, whom she would later marry, in 1992. She focused her energy on books for 'tweens' and children which is what gave her the most joy. In 1992 she joined the book division at Scholastic, leaving in 1995 to pursue writing full-time. Her third novel was 'Ask Me If I Care', a book about a teenage girl who gets in with the wrong crowd. The artwork for the dust jacket of the hardcover release includes a photo of her daughter, Jessica. She published her second original novel 'So Long, Daddy' in 1985.

She wrote novelizations (including Saturday Night Fever) and children's books (including Muppets books) while working full-time at Bantam and raising a child on her own. Her first novel 'The Trade', a trashy paperback about the publishing business, was published in 1969. She had a child, Jessica, with him in 1970. She was married to Bruce Gilmour in 1968. In 1964 she joined Bantam Books where she worked as copywriter, editor, and copy chief and as an associate director of marketing.

Gilmour’s first publishing job was at E.P.

She attended college there and then moved back to New York City. As a teenager, she moved to Florida to live with her father. She grew up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with her mother and the extended family and fondly remembered writing her very first poem for Arbor Day when she was just eight years old. Gilmour was a bestselling author of children's books.

The Power of Two by H.B. Gilmour