Hazel Joan Rowley (1951 - 2011)

Born 16 Nov 1951 in London, England, United Kingdom

Died 1 Mar 2011 at age 59 in New York City, New York, United States

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Biography

Hazel Rowley is Notable.

Hazel Joan Rowley was a British-born Australian author and biographer.

Born in London, Rowley emigrated with her parents to Adelaide, Australia 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 1994.^[2] It was shortlisted for the 1993 Colin Roderick Award^[3] Her next biographical work was about the African American writer Richard Wright. Her best-known book, Tête-à-tête (2005), 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 was Franklin & Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage, about Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt (2011).^[4]

Rowley suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in New York in February 2011^[4] and died there on 1 March.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Rowley, Hazel, AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource
2. ↑ Bennie, Angela: Hazel Rowley: Intimate obsessions, The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 December 2005
3. ↑ What makes a winning fellowship. Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995). 7 August 1994. p. 22. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Romei, Stephen: Hazel Rowley gravely ill after stroke, The Australian, 28 February 2011.
5. ↑ Leeds, Adrian: Inspired by Paris: the Wordsmiths of Our Time, Parler Paris, 2 March 2011.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_Rowley
• Hazel Rowley 1951–2011, The Book Show (ABC Radio National)