Joan Howard Maurer is the daughter of Moe Howard

Moe Howard

Moses Harry Horwitz , known professionally as Moe Howard, was an American actor and comedian best known as the leader of The Three Stooges, the farce comedy team who starred in motion pictures and television for four decades...

 of the Three Stooges. She has written several books on the Three Stooges and appeared in a few films.

She was married to cartoonist/director Norman Maurer

Norman Maurer

Norman Albert Maurer , a comic book artist and writer, was also a director and producer of films and television shows.-Comic books:...

 until his death in 1986.

Maurer currently resides in Seattle, Washington, and regularly attends Three Stooges conventions held yearly in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania

Fort Washington, Pennsylvania

Fort Washington is an unincorporated census-designated place and suburb of Philadelphia in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 5,446 at the 2010 census.-Prior to the Revolutionary War:...

. Her sons, Michael Maurer and Jeffrey Scott (Maurer), are both animation writers.

Books by Joan Howard Maurer

• The Three Stooges Book of Scripts ISBN 0806510188; April 1984
• Curly: An Illustrated Biography of the Superstooge
  Curly: An Illustrated Biography of the Superstooge
  Curly: An Illustrated Biography of the Superstooge is a biography of Three Stooges member Jerome Howard written by his niece, Joan Howard Maurer. It recounts her own memories of her uncle, along with interviews with various living relatives that had memories of the rotund stooge.One of the...
  
  ISBN 0-8065-1086-2; April 1985

Books Co-Authored by Joan Howard Maurer

• Moe Howard and the Three Stooges
  Moe Howard and the Three Stooges
  Moe Howard and the Three Stooges is the autobiography of Moe Howard of The Three Stooges. He spent his final days writing his autobiography, which he tentatively titled I Stooged to Conquer...
  
  ; written by Moe Howard, compiled by Joan Howard Maurer after Moe's death
• The Three Stooges Scrapbook
  The Three Stooges Scrapbook
  The Three Stooges Scrapbook was an unaired 1960 television pilot starring The Three Stooges . The pilot featured the slapstick trio getting evicted from a rooming house for cooking in their apartment, looking for a new place to live, finding refuge in the home of a mad inventor , and presenting an...
  
  ; with Jeff and Gregg Lenburg
• The Three Stooges Book of Scripts, Volume 2; with Norman Maurer (published after his death)

External links

• Joan Howard Maurer at IMDB.