Elizabeth O'Conner

{{Short description|Australian writer (1913–2000)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

{{Infobox writer

| image =

| name = Elizabeth O'Conner

| caption =

| pseudonym = Anne Willard

| birth_name = Barbara Willard Lowe

| birth_date = 1913

| birth_place = Dunedoo, New South Wales, Australia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2000|5|6|1913}}

| death_place = Cairns, Queensland, Australia

| occupation = Novelist

| nationality = Australian

| period = 1958–1989

| notableworks = The Irishman
Steak for Breakfast

| awards = Miles Franklin Award, 1960

}}

Elizabeth O'Conner (1913 – 6 May 2000), born under the name Barbara Willard Lowe, was an Australian novelist. Elizabeth O'Conner was born in Dunedoo in New South Wales. After a childhood spent in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales, she studied art in Adelaide and Sydney, before teaching at a Brisbane girls' boarding school.[http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A10132 Austlit - Elizabeth O'Conner]

She married Philip Birmingham McNamara, manager of a cattle station in March 1942{{Cite web|url=https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/details/a28b79f08c7fe9b4ce84af47ca304e555e6981bae86e8c464920aabdd92c369e|title=Marriage - Barbara Willard Lowe|website=www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au|language=en-AU|access-date=2018-09-05}} and moved to Queensland's Gulf Country, where she had four children.[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48077112 Australian Women's Weekly 03.12.1958] She died in Atherton, Queensland in 2000.