Hazel Rowley
Hazel Joan Rowley (born November 16, 1951 in London , England , † March 1, 2011 in New York City ) was an Australian non-fiction author and biographer .
Life
Hazel Joan Rowley's family immigrated to Australia when she was about eight years old. She grew up in Adelaide . She later studied at the University of Adelaide , where she graduated with honors in French and German. She did her PhD in French, working with Simone de Beauvoir , whom she also interviewed personally in the 1970s. Before emigrating to the United States, she taught literature at Deakin University in Melbourne for a while . She later gained fame with four biographies she wrote. She wrote about the Australian writer Christina Stead , the American writer Richard Wright and the marriages of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre , as well as Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt . Her most famous book tête-à-tête: The Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre in 2007 under the title tête-à-tête: de Life and Loves of Simone Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre from Parthas Verlag German in Language published.
In February 2011 Rowley suffered an intracerebral haemorrhage , from the consequences of which she died on March 1, 2011 at the age of 58.
Works
- Christina Stead: A Biography (1994)
- Richard Wright: The Life and Times (2001)
- Tête-à-tête: The Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir & Jean-Paul Sartre (2005)
- Tête-à-tête: Life and Love by Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre , Parthas Verlag (2007), 509 pages, ISBN 978-3-86601-667-5
- Franklin & Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage (2011)
Web links
- Hazel Rowley in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Hazel Rowley in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Margalit Fox: Hazel Rowley, Who Wrote of Charismatic Lives, Dies at 59 , nytimes.com, March 19, 2011.
- ↑ Stephen Romei: Hazel Rowley gravely ill after stroke ( memento of December 30, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), theaustralian.com.au, February 28, 2011.
- ↑ Stephen Romei: Hazel Rowley, 59, this in US ( memento of December 30, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), theaustralian.com.au, March 3, 2011.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rowley, Hazel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rowley, Hazel Joan (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian non-fiction author and biographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 2011 |
| Place of death | New York City , United States |