Christina Stead: A Biography

Publisher's synopsis

A beautiful new edition of Hazel Rowley’s compelling biography of one of Australia’s most important writers, Christina Stead.

This new edition of Hazel Rowley’s highly acclaimed biography of Christina Stead brings to life one of the most important literary figures of her age. Christina Stead left Australia in 1928, aged twenty-six, for Europe, not to return to Australia until she was seventy-two. An intensely private person, Stead lived a life that was stormy, eccentric and brave. Stead’s fiction was large and passionate, original and challenging, as was her life. Hazel Rowley’s compelling biography is a vigorous, penetrating and sympathetic chronicle of Stead’s life and times.

Awards

Winner 1993 National Book Council Award

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Tracks

Hazel Rowley

Hazel Rowley is also the author of Richard Wright: The Life and Times and most recently Tête-à-Tête: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre (translated into more than a dozen languages). She has been a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, a fellow at Harvard’s Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Studies, and a Bunting Institute Fellow at Radcliffe College. Brought up in England, Rowley lived in New York City until her death in 2011.

Further Details

Author Hazel Rowley

Publisher MUP

Date of Publication 1993

ISBN 9780522854060 (print)

Category Biography