Occupation Novelist Period 1958–1989 | Nationality Australian Notable works The Irishman | |
Books The Irishman, Steak for breakfast, A second helping, Spirit Man, Find a Woman, Darling Caroline | ||
Elizabeth O'Conner (1913 – 6 May 2000), born under the name Barbara 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.
She married the manager of a cattle station in 1942 and moved to Queensland's Gulf Country, where she had four children. She died in Atherton, Queensland in 2000.
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