Elizabeth Jolley

Elizabeth Jolley was born on 4 June 1923 in Birmingham, to an English father and an Austrian mother. Educated first at home, then at a Quaker boarding school, she began nursing studies in London at the age of seventeen. In 1959, she left for Western Australia with her husband, Leonard Jolley, and worked at various jobs there while writing; her first book appeared in 1976. She published fifteen novels, taught writing at Curtin University and three times received The Age Book of the Year award. She died on 13 February 2007.

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• NovelThe WellElizabeth Jolley · 1986Literature