Rachel Barrowman

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Rachel Barrowman
Born 1963 (age 60–61)
Wellington, New Zealand
Language English
Nationality New Zealand
Genre History
Notable awards Montana New Zealand Book Award

Rachel Barrowman (born 1963) is a New Zealand author and historian, with a focus on New Zealand cultural and intellectual history.[1]

Career

Barrowman's biography of R.A.K. Mason, Mason: The Life of R.A.K. Mason, won the 2004 Montana New Zealand Book Award in the biography category.[2] In 2010, Barrowman received the Michael King Writer's Fellowship from Creative New Zealand to write a biography of Maurice Gee.[1][3] The book, Maurice Gee: Life and Work , was a finalist for the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.[4] Barrowman has also received the National Library Fellowship and the Stout Research Centre Fellowship.[1]

Personal life

Barrowman was born and resides in Wellington.[5]

Published books

  • A Popular Vision: the Arts and the Left in New Zealand, 1930–1950 (1991, Victoria University Press)
  • The Turnbull: a Library and Its World (1995, Auckland University Press)
  • Victoria University of Wellington, 1899–1999: A History (1999, Victoria University Press)
  • Mason: The Life of R.A.K. Mason (2003, Victoria University Press)
  • Maurice Gee: Life and Work (2015, Victoria University Press)

Barrowman is also an editor of the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.[6]

References

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