Early life and education
Maureen Therese O'Halloran was born in Footscray, Victoria in 1935 and grew up in Melbourne. She graduated from theCareer
Radic's first play, ''Some of My Best Friends Are Women,'' was co-written with her husband, Leonard Radic. It was first performed by the Melbourne Theatre Company in 1983. When ''A Treasury of Favourite Australian Songs'' was published in the same year, reviewer Harry Black praised it for range of the bush songs included and for Radic's meticulous research into the origins of each song. Radic is the author of a biography of the violinist and conductorSelected works
Books
* ''G.W.L. Marshall-Hall: Portrait Of A Lost Crusader'' (1982) * ''Melba: The Voice of Australia'' (1986) * ''Bernard Heinze'' (1986) * ''A Treasury of Favourite Australian Songs'' (1983; 2nd ed. 1988) * ''Songs of Australian Working Life'' (1989) * ''G.W.L. Marshall Hall: A Biography and Catalogue'' (2002) * ''Marshall-Hall’s Melbourne: Music, Art and Controversy 1891–1915,'' co-authored with Suzanne Robinson (2012) As editor: * ''Repercussions'' (1995) * ''The Playwrights' Handbook'' (1994; 2nd ed. 1997) * ''Race Against Time: The diaries of F.S.Kelly'' (2004)Plays
* ''Some of My Best Friends Are Women,'' co-authored with Leonard Radic (1983) * ''A Whip Round for Percy Grainger'' (1984) * ''Cinders'' (1985) * ''Madame Mao'' (1986) * ''Peach Melba'' (1990) * ''The Emperor Regrets'' (1992) * ''A Committed Adultery'' (1992) * ''Shanghai Sisters'' (2000) * ''George and the Dragon'' (2004) * ''Cafe Scheherazade'' (2011)Personal
Radic was married to Leonard Radic (1935–9 January 2018). Their son, Steve, is an artist.References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Radic, Therese Australian biographers Australian women writers Australian musicologists 1935 births Living people University of Melbourne alumni Australian dramatists and playwrights Writers from Melbourne People from Footscray, Victoria