Editing Geoffrey Jenkins (section)

==Early life==
Jenkins was born either in [[Port Elizabeth]]{{sfn|Reginald|Menville|Burgess|2010|p=953}} or in [[Pretoria]]<ref name="Generations">{{cite journal|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~haydencowan/Falconer/South%20Africa/Generations%2520-%2520a%2520South%2520African%2520genealogy%2520newsletter.pdf|author=anonymous|title=Obituaries|journal=Generations: A South African Genealogy Newsletter|date=2001–2002|volume=4|issue=30|pages=19–20}}</ref> to Ernest Jenkins, an editor, and Daisy Jenkins.{{sfn|Reginald|Menville|Burgess|2010|p=953}} At age 17, he wrote and had published ''A Century of History'', which received a special eulogy from [[General Jan Smuts]] at the [[Potchefstroom]] centenary celebrations.<ref name="Generations" /> Smuts also wrote the book's introduction.{{sfn|Cornwell|Klopper|MacKenzie|2012|p=2104}}

Jenkins subsequently won the Lord Kemsley Commonwealth Journalistic Scholarship,<ref>{{cite journal|last=Kleinschmidt|first=Mary|title=Geoffrey Jenkins at Home|journal=Kaapse Bibliotekaris|volume=26|date=May 1982|page=3}}</ref> which took him to [[Fleet Street]], where he spent [[World War II]] as a [[war correspondent]].

While working for the ''[[Sunday Times]]'', he became friends with author [[Ian Fleming]], creator of the fictional British secret agent [[James Bond]]. Fleming later praised Jenkins' writing, saying "Geoffrey Jenkins has the supreme gift of originality... ''A Twist of Sand'' is a literate, imaginative first novel in the tradition of high and original adventure".

After the war Jenkins settled in [[Rhodesia]], where he met his wife, author [[Eve Palmer]] (1916–1998). They married on 17 March 1950.{{sfn|Reginald|Menville|Burgess|2010|p=953}} They had a son named David (born c. 1953).<ref name="Generations" />

Jenkins was briefly editor of the newspaper ''The Umtali Advertiser''<ref name="Generations" /> then became a reporter at ''The Star'' newspaper in [[Johannesburg]].<ref name="Generations" />