Background
Barbara Brooks was born on December 9, 1947, in Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia. She was the daughter of Thomas Ronald and Diana Frances Joyce (Machin) Brooks.
1965
St Lucia QLD 4072, Australia
Barbara Brooks attended the University of Queensland from 1965 till 1969.
1965
St Lucia QLD 4072, Australia
Barbara Brooks attended the University of Queensland from 1965 till 1969.
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It began as an act of sudden impulse but became a habit neither of them could break.
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1965
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1968
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A trailblazer in its field, this was the first full-length biography of a major Australian writer from the 1930s-50s. Eleanor Dark's work was published in Australia, the UK, the USA and translated into several European languages.
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Barbara Brooks was born on December 9, 1947, in Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia. She was the daughter of Thomas Ronald and Diana Frances Joyce (Machin) Brooks.
Barbara Brooks attended the University of Queensland from 1965 till 1969.
Brooks began her career from the position of librarian at school. Now she is an excellent writer. Barbara Brooks has published a short memoir, essays and fiction, and an acclaimed biography, Eleanor Dark: A writer’s life. Her essays and stories have been published in Europe, Asia, and the US as well as Australia. She is a highly regarded teacher and lecturer of writing and has taught at a number of universities, including teaching non-fiction writing and life writing at the University of Technology Sydney. Barbara worked as a facilitator of community writing and oral history projects.
Barbara Brooks became a writer in residence in 1992. Barbara Brooks is an author of introductions (with Judith Clark) to Return to Coolami, Imprint, 1990, and Storm of Time and No Barrier, Imprint, 1991. She is also an author of afterword for Eleanor Dark, Prelude to Christopher, Halstead, 1999. In addition to producing Eleanor Dark, Brooks has published fiction, including Leaving Queensland, and has seen her work represented in various anthologies, including both the Faber Book of Contemporary Australian Short Stories, Streets of Desire, and Family Pictures.
Barbara Brooks is an editor of You Live and Learn and I’m Still Learning, Marrickville Community Arts, 1988, and The Heart of a Place: Stories of Women from the Liverpool Area, Liverpool Council, 1992 (both with Colleen Burke).
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1965Quotations: “Writing is about asking questions; it can’t be divorced from the social and political but it must be free to subvert everything. I’m interested in writing that crosses boundaries between fiction and nonfiction, prose and poetry, story and essay. In Australia, opportunities for publication and awareness of writers and writing have expanded over the last two decades; but although writers have a larger potential audience, opportunities to read or speak about one’s work have become marketing opportunities rather than the debates and discussions of a lively and engaged writing community.”
Barbara Brooks is a member of Sydney Women Writer’s Workshop, Australian Society of Authors, Eleanor Dark Foundation. Barbara Brooks is a founding member of the committee of the Memoir Club Sydney.
Barbara Brooks married in 1967. She got divorced in 1973.
