Another of the old guard has passed away. This looks legitimate.

http://poleandrope.blogspot.com/

A lot of the old guard are passing.  I went to go send Bob Liddil an email a few weeks ago and found out he had passed back in May.

Hey everyone,

RIP Jean Wells.

I remember B3 Palace of the Silver Princess with great fondness.

My character Rayek the Infamous Purple Dwarf (2nd level fighter/thief) was the only one in our party to survive that module.

Best regards,
Ronald

R.I.P Jean Wells, far too young to go, sadly missed. Fondly remembered.
B3 was always one of my favourite basic D&D Modules.

Here's another old interview covering similar questions from 2010. She's obviously very ill.

http://saveordie.info/?p=173

It's a little sad how it all turned out.

Edit to add: She talked about some other stuff she was working on at the time, and now. I think it would be cool for some of that to see the light of day. Maybe Acaeum can make that a reality in the form of some kind of module in her honor or something.

Zenopus wrote:I just wrote about her TSR work: Jean Wells, author and illustrator

Jean Wells - TSR Bibliography
Monster Manual (1979) - Interior Art added to Aug 1979 revision (Eye of the Deep, Giant Sumatran Rat, Otyugh (with "Dave"), Violet Fungi)
S2 White Plume Mountain (1979) - Editor
Lost Tamaochan (1979) - Interior Art and other help
Rogues Gallery (1980) - Design (Co-Author), Editing and Layout; includes her character Ceatitle
B2 Keep on the Borderlands (1980) - Editor
B3 Palace of the Silver Princess (1981) - Author and Interior Art
A4 In the Dungeons of the Slave Lords (1981) - Interior Art
Polyhedron #3 (Winter 1981) - Interior Art ("Plant Creature" = Jupiter Blood Sucker from B3)
Polyhedron #4 (Jan 1982) - Interior Art (illustration of Duchess and Candella)
Sage Advice column in Dragon (years?)

This is probably incomplete, so let me know if you know of anything else.

We will publish an obituary in the February issue of DM Magazine and I'll insert your bibliography (with credit of course).

Alexander wrote:
We will publish an obituary in the February issue of DM Magazine and I'll insert your bibliography (with credit of course).

Sure, that's fine. Thank you. I just made some revisions to it.

I went searched through Dragon tonight & found some interesting info:

Dragon #24 (April 1979), "From the Sorcerer's Scroll" by Gary Gygax - Jean Wells is now on the staff of a new Design Department (pg 19).

Dragon #25 (May 1979), "From the Sorcerer's Scroll" by Gary Gygax indicates that the DMG is finished and that "TSR's new Design Department, namely Lawrence Schick and Jean Wells, undertook the authorship of two sections - ostensibly to test the mettle of these good folk, but actually to assure that the whole manuscript would be finished in a timely manner" (pg 33).

Dragon #28 (Aug1979), "The Dungeon Masters Guide and a Few Words", capsule reviews of the DMG by various TSR staff that worked on it, including Jean Wells (page 5).

Dragon #31 (Nov 1979), first Sage Advice column, by Jean Wells (pg 26). Runs through column #39 credited to her alone. Gone from issues #40-41, reappears in #42 indicating that it will now be answered by multiple authors. Jean answers a few more questions in issues #43 and #46.

Dragon #34 (Feb 1980) - playtester for Doomkeep module, Second Official AD&D Masters Tournament (page M10)

Dragon #39 (July  1980), "Women want equality and why not?", Jean Wells and Kim Mohan (pg 16-17). Also credited as an artist for this issue, but I couldn't find an illustration with her signature.