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Barbara Anderson (writer)

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Genre
  
Short Stories; Novels

Awards
  
National Poetry Series

Died
  
March 24, 2013, Auckland

Role
  
Fiction writer

Name
  
Barbara Anderson



Born
  
26 April 1926 Hastings, New Zealand (
1926-04-26
)

Alma mater
  
University of Otago; Victoria University of Wellington

Spouse
  
Neil Anderson (m. 1951–2013)

Education
  
University of Otago, Victoria University of Wellington

Books
  
Portrait of the Artist's Wife, All the Nice Girls, Proud Garments, Getting There: An Autobiography, The Swing Around

Barbara Anderson, Lady Anderson (1926 – 24 March 2013) was a New Zealand fiction writer who became internationally recognized despite her first book being published in her sixties.

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Career

Born Barbara Lillian Romaine in Hastings, New Zealand, she was educated at the University of Otago where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1947. In 1951, she married Sir Neil Anderson, a Royal New Zealand Navy officer later to become Chief of New Zealand Defence Staff. They had two sons. After a career as a medical technologist and as a teacher, she went back to college in Wellington, New Zealand, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Victoria University of Wellington in 1984.

Lady Anderson died in Auckland on 24 March 2013.

Works

  • I Think We Should Go Into the Jungle : Short Stories. Wellington : Victoria University Press, 1989; London: Secker & Warburg, 1993.
  • Girls' High. Wellington : Victoria University Press, 1990, 1999; London: Secker & Warburg, 1991.
  • Portrait of the Artist's Wife. Wellington : Victoria University Press, 1992; London: Secker & Warburg, 1992; New York: Norton, 1993; London: Minerva, 1993.
  • All the Nice Girls. Wellington : Victoria University Press, 1993, 1999; London: Cape, 1994; London: Vintage, 1995.
  • The House Guest. Wellington : Victoria University Press, 1995; London: Cape, 1995; London: Vintage, 1997.
  • Proud Garments. Wellington : Victoria University Press, 1996.
  • The Peacocks : and Other Stories. Wellington : Victoria University Press, 1997.
  • Glorious things, and other stories. London: Cape, 1999.
  • Long Hot Summer. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1999; London: Cape, 2000.
  • The Swing Around. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2001.
  • Getting There: An Autobiography, 2008

    • References

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