Hazel Rowley

Hazel Rowley

Hazel Rowley
Born	Hazel Joan Rowley 16 November 1951 London, England, UK
Died	1 March 2011 aoremovetag(aged 59) New York City, New York, USA
Language	English, French
Alma mater	University of Adelaide
Genres	Biography
Notable work(s)	Tête-à-tête (2005)
Notable award(s)	1994 NBC Banjo Award for Non-Fiction
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Hazel Joan Rowley (16 November 1951 – 1 March 2011) was a British-born Australian author and biographer.

Born in London, Rowley emigrated with her parents to Adelaide 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.

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. 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 is Franklin & Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage, about Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt (2011).

Rowley suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in New York in February 2011 and died there on 1 March.

Bibliography

References

External links

• Official website
• Hazel Rowley 1951–2011, The Book Show (ABC Radio National)

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