Ruth Park

Ruth Park was born on 24 August 1917 in Auckland, New Zealand, into a family brought to hardship by the Depression. A journalist at the Auckland Star, she saw a post in San Francisco slip away after Pearl Harbor and left for Sydney, where in 1942 she married the writer D'Arcy Niland, with whom she had five children; for a time the couple lived in the slums of Surry Hills. She wrote for radio, published novels and children's books, and received the Miles Franklin Award in 1977. She died in Sydney on 14 December 2010.

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• NovelThe Harp in the SouthRuth Park · 1948Literature