Anderson, Barbara (1926–)

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Anderson, Barbara (1926–)

New Zealand novelist and short-story writer. Born 1926 in Hastings, New Zealand; educated in Hawkes Bay; University of Otago, BSc, 1947; Victoria University of Wellington, BA, 1984.

For 30 years, worked as a laboratory technician and teacher in the sciences, before earning an arts degree (1984); was in her 60s before she began her career as a bestselling author; works include I Think We Should Go Into the Jungle: Short Stories (1989), Girls' High (1990), Portrait of the Artist's Wife (1992), The House Guest (1995), Glorious Things, and Other Stories (1999), The Swing Around (2001), and Change of Heart (2003).

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