Rachel Barrowman
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Rachel Barrowman (born 1963) is a New Zealand author and historian, with a focus on New Zealand cultural and intellectual history.
Career
Barrowman's biography of R.A.K. Mason, Mason: The Life of R.A.K. Mason, won the 2004 Montana New Zealand Book Award in the biography category.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards/past-winners-by-author?letter=B|title=Past Winners by Author|website=New Zealand Book Awards Trust|access-date=11 December 2017}} In 2006, Barrowman received the Michael King Writer's Fellowship from Creative New Zealand to write a biography of Maurice Gee; she subsequently held a summer residency at the Michael King Writers Centre in 2010.{{Cite web|url=https://writerscentre.org.nz/rachel-barrowman-2010-br/|title=Rachel Barrowman: 2010 Summer Writers Residency |website=Michael King Writers Centre|access-date=13 May 2024}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.thebigidea.nz/node/173325|title=Rachel Barrowman awarded the largest writing fellowship in New Zealand|date=24 June 2006|work=The Big Idea|archive-date=12 December 2017|language=en |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171212031503/https://thebigidea.nz/node/173325}} The book, Maurice Gee: Life and Work, was a finalist for the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.{{Cite web|url=http://www.noted.co.nz/culture/books/ockham-nz-book-awards-2016-winners-and-finalists/|title=Ockham NZ Book Awards 2016 winners and finalists|website=The Listener|language=en|access-date=11 December 2017}} Barrowman has also received the National Library Fellowship and the Stout Research Centre Fellowship.
Personal life
Published books
- A Popular Vision: the Arts and the Left in New Zealand, 1930–1950 (1991, Victoria University Press)
- The Turnbull: a Library and Its World (1995, Auckland University Press)
- Victoria University of Wellington, 1899–1999: A History (1999, Victoria University Press)
- Mason: The Life of R.A.K. Mason (2003, Victoria University Press)
- Maurice Gee: Life and Work (2015, Victoria University Press)
Barrowman is also an editor of the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writer/barrowman-rachel|title=Rachel Barrowman|website=New Zealand Book Council|access-date=11 December 2017}}
References
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Further reading
- [http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/name-120256.html Rachel Barrowman in the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection]
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Category:20th-century New Zealand historians
Category:Writers from Wellington City