Maurice Gee

Maurice Gough Gee was born in Whakatāne on 22 August 1931, the son of a carpenter and of a mother gifted for writing. He grew up in Henderson, in west Auckland, which feeds a large part of his books. A graduate in English of the University of Auckland, he taught at Paeroa and then worked as a librarian, received the Burns Fellowship at Otago in 1964 and became a full-time writer, for adults as well as for young readers. In 2004 he received the Prime Minister's Award for his body of work, and he died in June 2025, aged ninety-three.

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• NovelPlumbMaurice Gee · 1978Literature