Rachel Barrowman (born 1963) is a
New Zealand
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author and historian, with a focus on
New Zealand
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cultural and intellectual history.
Career
Barrowman's biography of
R.A.K. Mason
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He wa ...
, ''Mason: The Life of R.A.K. Mason'', won the 2004
Montana New Zealand Book Award
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in the biography category. In 2010, Barrowman received the Michael King Writer's Fellowship from
Creative New Zealand
The Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa (Creative New Zealand) is the national arts development agency of the New Zealand government, investing in artists and arts organisations, offering capability building programmes and developing markets ...
to write a biography of ''
Maurice Gee
Maurice Gough Gee (born 22 August 1931) is a New Zealand novelist. He is one of New Zealand's most distinguished and prolific authors, having written over thirty novels for adults and children, and has won numerous awards both in New Zealand an ...
''.
The book, ''Maurice Gee: Life and Work'' '','' was a finalist for the 2016
Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are literary awards presented annually in New Zealand. The awards began in 1996 as the merger of two literary awards events: the New Zealand Book Awards, which ran from 1976 to 1995, and the Goodman Fielder W ...
. Barrowman has also received the National Library Fellowship and the Stout Research Centre Fellowship.
Personal life
Barrowman was born and resides in
Wellington
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.
Published books
* ''A Popular Vision: the Arts and the Left in New Zealand'', ''1930–1950'' (1991, Victoria University Press)
* ''The Turnbull: a Library and Its World'' (1995, Auckland University Press)
* ''Victoria University of Wellington'', ''1899–1999: A History'' (1999, Victoria University Press)
* ''Mason: The Life of R.A.K. Mason'' (2003, Victoria University Press)
* ''Maurice Gee: Life and Work'' (2015, Victoria University Press)
Barrowman is also an editor of the ''Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.''
References
Further reading
Rachel Barrowman in the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
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1963 births
Living people
20th-century New Zealand historians
Writers from Wellington City
21st-century New Zealand historians
New Zealand women historians