Education
He was educated at Auckland Grammar School and the University of Auckland.
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Born in Cottingham, Yorkshire in the United Kingdom, Chris Else emigrated to New Zealand in 1956. Else has worked in teaching, bookselling and data-processing. While he was at the Auckland Teachers" Training College, he was awarded the 64 Literature Cup in successive years, 1965 and 1966.
In 2005, he was elected President of The New Zealand Society of Authors (Pen New Zealand).
In 2007, he was appointed Chairman of Directors of Copyright Licensing Limited and in that year also was Writer in Residence at King"s College, Auckland. In 2011, Else was awarded the Autumn Residency at the Michael King Writers’ Centre in Devonport, Auckland, to work on a major new novel which explores how New Zealand society began to change in the 1960s and 1970s.
