Career
Starting in the 1980s, she wrote a total of 9 books "And the Second Prize is - Across Australia by Business" was her first. In this book she describes her long coach trip around Australia.
An adventurer and traveller herself, Shirley Fenton Huie has long been fascinated by those women who followed the urge to travel at a time when it was not thought right and proper for a woman to do southern
This is why she wrote "Tiger Lilies" - an enthralling account of sixteen spirited women who dared to defy the barriers of their time. Fenton Huie"s last published book was "Someone Else"s Country" which was launched in the Lobby of The National Library of Australia, in Canberra on 3 September 2003.
This book carries her own autobiography. Fenton Huie donated to the "Australian War Memorial Research Centre" 8 boxes of papers associated with the writing of two of her published books