Elizabeth Fiona Knox is an award-winning New Zealand writer. She has authored eleven novels, three autobiographical novella, and a collection of essays.
Background
Elizabeth Knox was born on February 15, 1959 in Wellington, New Zealand, into the family of Ray Knox and Heather Douglas Knox. Elizabeth spent her childhood living in various small towns in New Zealand, including Pomare, Wadestown, Waikanae and Paremata.
Education
In 1972 - 1976 Elizabeth studied at Tawa College. After that she received Bachelor of Arts at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand in 1986.
Career
Elizabeth Knox worked variously as a clerk, printer, insurance underwriter, computer operator, editor, web page editor, publicity officer, and shop assistant. In 1989 - 1995 she served as a tutor in film studies at Victoria University.
In 1984 Elizabeth started work on her first book "After Z-Hour" in Bill Manhire's Original Composition course at Victoria. In 1988 Fergus Barrowman, Nigel Cox, Knox, and Damien Wilkins, with the help of Bill Manhire, Alan Preston and Andrew Mason, co-founded the literary journal Sport. Knox was one of its editors and has also been a frequent contributor to the magazine. Since 1997 Knox has been a full-time writer. Her novel "The Vintner's Luck" was published in 1998. After "The Vintner's Luck" Knox published three more novels. Between 2005 and 2007 her first young adult series, "The Dreamhunter Duet", was released.
Achievements
Her best known works are "The Vintner's Luck", which won several awards, has been published in nine languages, and has been made into a film of the same name by Niki Caro, and "The Dreamhunter Duet", a literary fantasy series for teen readers.