Hazel rowley biography

Hazel Rowley

Australian writer

Hazel Joan Rowley (16 November &#;– 1 March ) was a British-born Australian author and biographer.

Born in London, Rowley emigrated with her parents to Adelaide at the age of eight. She studied at the University of Adelaide, graduating with Honours in French and German. Later she acquired a PhD in French. She taught literary studies at Deakin University in Melbourne, before moving to the United States.[1]

Rowley's first published biography, of Australian novelist Christina Stead, was critically acclaimed and won the National Book Council's "Banjo" Award for non-fiction in [2] It was shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Award.[3] Her next biographical work was about the African American writer Richard Wright. Her best-known book, Tête-à-tête (), covers the lives of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre (de Beauvoir had been the subject of Rowley's PhD thesis). Her last published book is Franklin & Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage, about Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt ().[4]

Rowley suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in New York in February [4] and died there on 1 March, aged [5]

Legacy

The annual Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship was set up in her memory in , with Mary Hoban the inaugural winner in [6]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^Rowley, Hazel, AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource
  2. ^Bennie, Angela: Hazel Rowley: Intimate obsessions, The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 December
  3. ^"What makes a winning fellowship". Canberra Times (ACT&#;: – ). 7 August p.&#; Retrieved 28 March
  4. ^ abRomei, Stephen: Hazel Rowley gravely ill after stroke, The Australian, 28 February
  5. ^Leeds, Adrian: Inspired by Paris: the Wordsmiths of Our TimeArchived 7 July at the Wayback Machine, Parler Paris, 2 March
  6. ^"Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship". Writers Victoria Inc. 10 June Retrieved 20 January

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