It is chock full of information about Jensen’s life. Throughout her career in publishing, Jensen published over 200 stories in women’s magazines and more than 30 novels in the Gothic, horror, and suspense genres.Īll of the information in this article comes from a fantastic online biography page published along with her obituary at Find a Grave – Memorials. Her early entries in the occult horror and suspense field were published by Leisure Books and Tor before she finally found a long-time home at Zebra Books. She wrote a handful of Gothics that were published by Warner and Manor Books before the genre’s popularity waned in the late 1970s. Her first novel as an adult was rejected, which left her discouraged for some time, but she eventually picked up her pen again to aim at the Gothic market. Vaughn’s long hours working the farm left Jensen with time alone, during which which she read voraciously and began to write again in her spare time. After they were married, they moved to a farm in Vaughn’s home state of Nebraska for a few years before finally settling in Arkansas in the late-1950s. She met her husband of 50 years, World War II Army veteran Vaughn, in Northern California.
She started writing when she was quite young, completing her first novel at age 11.
Jensen began her career in the world of Gothic romance in 1974 when she sold her first novel to Warner, “The House That Samael Built.” That was her first professional sale, but not her first venture into the world of fiction. Ruby Jean Jensen (Ma– November 16, 2010) was an American author of horror and suspense, one of the stars of the Zebra Horror line in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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