Background
Gillison was born in Australia, of an Australian father and Canadian mother, but has lived overseas since she was two years old, although she retains her Australian citizenship.
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Samantha Gillison
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Brown University.
Career
She lived for some years in Papua New Guinea, where her mother was doing anthropological studies and her father was a photographer. She used the Proportional navigation guidance setting for her first novel, The Undiscovered Country (1998). She attended Brown University, where she majored in ancient Greek, and has taught at Columbia University.
Peter Carey, who had never heard of Gillison before being sent a copy of The Undiscovered Country by her publisher, rang her to offer a very positive review for the dust jacket.
