Elizabeth O'Conner
Elizabeth O'Conner | |
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Born |
Barbara Willard Lowe 1913 Dunedoo, New South Wales, Australia |
Died |
6 May 2000 86–87) Cairns, Queensland, Australia | (aged
Pen name | Anne Willard |
Occupation | Novelist |
Nationality | Australian |
Period | 1958–1989 |
Notable works | The Irishman |
Notable awards | Miles Franklin Award, 1960 |
Elizabeth O'Conner (1913 — 6 May 2000), born under the name Barbara Willard Lowe, was an Australian novelist. Elizabeth O'Conner was born in Dunedoo in New South Wales. After a childhood spent in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales, she studied art in Adelaide and Sydney, before teaching at a Brisbane girls' boarding school.[1]
She married Philip Birmingham McNamara, manager of a cattle station in March 1942[2] and moved to Queensland's Gulf Country, where she had four children.[3] She died in Atherton, Queensland in 2000.
Bibliography
Novels
- The Irishman (1960)
- Find a Woman (1963)
- The Chinese Bird (1966)
- The Winds of Fate (1977)
- Spirit Man (1980)
- Darling Caroline (1980)
Autobiography
- Steak for Breakfast (1958)
- A Second Helping (1969)
Awards
- 1960 — winner Miles Franklin Award for The Irishman
References
- ↑ Austlit - Elizabeth O'Conner
- ↑ "Marriage - Barbara Willard Lowe". www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au. Retrieved 2018-09-05.
- ↑ Australian Women's Weekly 03.12.1958
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