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Author Rowley, Hazel, author

Title Life as art : the biographical writing of Hazel Rowley / edited by Della Rowley & Lynn Buchanan ; [with an introduction by Drusila Modjeska]
Published Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Publishing, 2021
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, portraits
Series Miegunyah volumes. Second numbered series ; number one hundred and ninety-nine
Miegunyah Press series ; 2nd ser., no. 199.
Summary 'My books are all, in their different ways, voyages of discovery. I write books to learn, to stretch my horizons. These voyages of mine are full of risk and passion.' Hazel Rowley Hazel Rowley was an award-winning biographer who was committed to telling the stories of people's lives. This collection of short pieces--journal articles, essays, talks, diary entries - provides a wonderful insight into her craft. In these pages she talks honestly about the joys, the challenges, the highs and the lows of writing biography. Much of the material is previously unpublished and reveals Rowley's lively ideas on a range of topics. Before her untimely death in 2011, Rowley wrote four acclaimed biographies: about Christina Stead, Richard Wright, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, and Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. This new collection gives a rich store of reflections on biography and draws the reader into Rowley's passionate pursuit of stories and her search for new biographical subjects. Della and Lynn, along with Hazel's friend Irene Tomaszewski, established the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship in her memory
Subject Rowley, Hazel
Stead, Christina, 1902-1983.
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986.
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.
SUBJECT Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986. fast
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962. fast
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945. fast
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980. fast
Stead, Christina, 1902-1983. fast
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. fast
Subject Authors -- Biography.
Biographers -- Australia
Biography as a literary form.
Biography -- 20th century.
Philosophers -- France -- Biography
Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Women biographers -- Australia
Biography.
biographies (literary works)
biography (general genre)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
Authors.
Biographers.
Biography as a literary form.
Biography.
Philosophers.
Presidents' spouses.
Presidents.
Women biographers.
Australia.
France.
United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Buchanan, Lynn, editor
Modjeska, Drusilla, writer of introduction
Rowley, Della, editor
ISBN 9780522877823
0522877826
Other Titles Biographical writing of Hazel Rowley