Hazel Rowley

Education

She studied at the University of Adelaide, graduating with Honours in French and German. Later she acquired a Doctor of Philosophy in French.

Career

She taught literary studies at Deakin University in Melbourne, before moving to the United States. Her next biographical work was about the African American writer Richard Wright. Her best-known book, Tête-à-tête (2005), covers the lives of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre (de Beauvoir had been the subject of Rowley"s Doctor of Philosophy thesis).

Her last published book is Franklin & Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage, about Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt (2011).

Rowley suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in New York in February 2011 and died there on 1 March.

Achievements

• Rowley"s first published biography, of Australian novelist Christina Stead, was critically acclaimed and won the National Book Council"s "Banjo" Award for non-fiction in 1994.

Works

• book

  • Christina Stead: A Biography

    (This critical biography of Australian novelist Christina ...)

  • Richard Wright: The Life And Times by Hazel Rowley (2008-02-15)
  • Richard Wright the Life & Times
  • Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage by Hazel Rowley (2010-10-26)
  • Christina Stead: A Biography by Hazel Rowley (1994-09-02)
  • Richard Wright: The Life and Times