Ruth Dallas (A writer's life)

Ruth Dallas (1919– 2008) is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’ s most distinctive, respected and influential literary voices. Drawing on Dallas’ s 1991 autobiography, Curved Horizon, her writing notebooks and journals, and letters and interviews, Diana Morrow shows how the girl whose first published work appeared in the children’ s pages of the Southland Daily News grew up to become the internationally acclaimed author of nine poetry collections, a book of short stories and eight children’ s books. In this beautifully written and generously illustrated biography, Morrow gives us the Ruth Dallas that her family and friends knew and loved: a private person with a lively outlook on life; a serious and informed writer with an impish sense of humour; and a writer of rare clarity and insight whose work has enriched the lives of generations of readers in New Zealand and around the world.