Lauris edmond autobiography vs biography

New Zealand writer

Lauris Dorothy EdmondOBE (née Scott, 2 April 1924 – 28 January 2000) was a New Zealand poet and writer.

Biography

Born in Dannevirke, Hawke's Bay, Edmond survived the 1931 Napier earthquake as a child.

Trained as a teacher, she raised a family before publishing the poetry she had privately written throughout her life. Following her first book, In Middle Air, written in 1975, she published many volumes of poetry, a novel, an autobiography (Hot October, 1989) and several plays.

Lauris edmond autobiography vs biography

Her Selected Poems (1984) won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.

Edmond wrote poetry throughout her life but decided to publish her first collection of verse, In Middle Air, only in 1975, at the age of 51.^[1] The work was awarded the PEN Best First Book Award for 1975.

She began her editorial activities in 1979, and in 1980 published a selection of poems by Chris Ward.^[2] In 1981 she edited the letters of A.R.D. Fairburn (1904–1957),