Joan Colebrook (Heale) (1910–1991) was an Australian American writer and journalist.

Life

Joan Moffat Heale was born on 31 August 1910[1] and grew up on a dairy farm in Queensland, Australia.[2] She took a BA from the University of Queensland in 1932 and worked as a freelance journalist.[2][3] She married Mulford Albert Colebrook in 1933[4] and moved to England before settling permanently in Cape Cod in the US in the late 1940s.[2] She had two sons and a daughter.[5]

Works

Colebrook wrote several novels and non-fiction books. She wrote journalism for magazines including Commentary, The New Republic and The New Yorker.[5][2] One of her best received works was The Cross of Latitude, based on her experience as a social-worker and women's prison officer.[5]

Novels

  • All That Seemed Final (1941)
  • The Northerner (1948)

Nonfiction

  • The Cross of Latitude (1968)
  • Innocents of the West (1979)
  • A House of Trees (1987).

References

  1. ↑ "Birth registration: Joan Moffat Heale". Queensland Government: Births, deaths, marriages and divorces. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Wilde, W. H. (1994). The Oxford companion to Australian literature. Joy W. Hooton, B. G. Andrews (2nd ed.). Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-553381-X. OCLC 32470151.
  3. ↑ "Joan Colebrook". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  4. ↑ "Colebrook—Heale". The Brisbane Courier. No. 4. Queensland, Australia. 31 August 1933. p. 18. Retrieved 14 February 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. 1 2 3 "Joan Colebrook; Writer, 80". The New York Times. 1991-04-02. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
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