Category: Australasian authors
Ray, N L
About the author Nancy Louise Hunt, who also wrote as N L Ray, was born in 1918 in Bathurst, New South Wales, and had her first work published at the age of just 11 in the Sydney Sun and Melbourne Herald. During World War II she served in the WAAF in Melbourne. From the 1960s,…
Whitbread, Elizabeth
About the author Elizabeth Whitbread was a pseudonym used by the author Helen Barrett. Bibliography A Good Year for Riding D’Artagnan Publishing, Adelaide, South Australia, 1982 A Good Christmas for Riding D’Artagnan Publishing, Adelaide, South Australia, 1985 A Good Horse for Riding D’Artagnan Publishing, Adelaide, South Australia, 1988
Williams, Gwenda
About the author Gwenda Williams was, according to the blurb on her collection of short stories, ‘well known in evangelical circles in New Zealand’. Her book, The Hand on the Rein (1950) contains 29 short stories, all of them ‘vibrant with the urgent necessity of leading the young into fellowship with the Saviour.’ Quoting wholesale from the…
West, Joyce
About the author Joyce West (1908–85) was born in Auckland, New Zealand and educated in Maori schools (where her parents were teachers) and by correspondence. The family lived a remote, rural existence, rode everywhere, and kept a large menagerie of animals. When she began to write, she said, ‘it was with the wish that I…
Warner, Dave
About the author Dave Warner is multi talented: he’s a rock musician, screenwriter, and an author. Amongst his non fiction is an exposé of the bad bits of racing – Racing’s Hall of Shame (1999) – not a typical horse book by any means: they tend to focus on the nicer side of life. It’s perhaps not…
Turner, Gwenda
About the author Gwenda Turner (1947–2001) was born in Australia, and moved to New Zealand when she was 19. She left school when she was sixteen, and started work as a secretary. She later took a graphic design course at Wellington Polytechnic, and produced her first book, Akaroa: Banks Peninsula, New Zealand in 1977. Her first children’s…
Thiele, Colin
About the author Colin Thiele (1920–2006) was bilingual, living in a German farming community in Australia. He went to the University of Adelaide, and after graduating, served as a radar mechanic with the RAAF in Northern Australia during the Second World War. He began teaching in Port Lincoln in 1946, and he combined his teaching…
Stewart, Christine and Yager, Julie
About the author Christine Stewart and Julie Yager, started Six Horses and a Caravan when they were 15 and 13 respectively. The project took them a few years: they were 19 and 17 when they completed it. They were inspired to start the story when one day after school they saw a truck with six horses and…
Stevens, Fae Huston
About the author Fae Hewston Stevens was born in 1907 in Wedderburn, Victoria, a member of the Hewston family, who were well known in both musical and sporting circles. She lived much of her life in Lockington, and celebrated her 100th birthday there in 2007. As a child, she lived at a farm at Kinypaniel,…