Gloria Bevan
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Gloria Isabel Bevan (20 July 1911 - 1998.{{Cite web|url=http://natlib.govt.nz/records/35851419?search%5Bi%5D%5Bcategory%5D=Groups&search%5Bi%5D%5Bcentury%5D=1900&search%5Bi%5D%5Bsubject_text%5D=Readers&search%5Bpath%5D=items|title=Gloria Bevan|website=natlib.govt.nz|access-date=2020-12-19}}) was an Australian-born New Zealand writer of romantic fiction.{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/216803.Gloria_Bevan|title=Gloria Bevan|website=www.goodreads.com|access-date=2017-10-08}}
Early life
Bevan was born on 20 July 1911 in Kalgoorlie, Australia, where her father was a mining engineer. When she was three years old, the family moved to New Zealand, and lived in Auckland from 1926 to 1936. She attended Auckland Technical College.{{Cite web|url=http://natlib.govt.nz/records/35851419?search%5Bi%5D%5Bcategory%5D=Groups&search%5Bi%5D%5Bcentury%5D=1900&search%5Bi%5D%5Bsubject_text%5D=Readers&search%5Bpath%5D=items|title=Interview with Gloria Bevan|date=1 October 1992|access-date=8 October 2017}}
Career
After finishing her high school studies, Bevan worked as a typist while writing stories in her spare time. Her first published works were detective novels, written under the pseudonym Fiona Murray, in 1965. She later met fellow New Zealand romance writer Essie Summers, who introduced her to Allan Boon of Mills & Boon publishers. From 1969 to 1992 she wrote 25 contemporary romance novels for Mills & Boon, which were published under her own name. Her books were considered "wholesome", and focused almost exclusively on the hero-heroine relationship.{{Cite book|title=The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature|last=Robinson and Wattie|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1998|pages=374}}
= Personal life =
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Category:People from Kalgoorlie
Category:Australian emigrants to New Zealand