Barbara Anderson (writer)


Barbara Lillias Romaine Anderson, Lady Anderson was a New Zealand fiction writer who became internationally recognized despite her first book being published in her sixties.

Career

Born Barbara Lillias Romaine Wright in Hastings, she was educated at the University of Otago where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1947. In 1951, she married Neil Anderson, a Royal New Zealand Navy officer later to become Chief of New Zealand Defence Staff. They had two sons. After a career as a medical technologist and as a teacher, she went back to university in Wellington, New Zealand, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Victoria University of Wellington in 1984.
Her husband was knighted in 1982, and she was subsequently styled Lady Anderson. She died in Auckland on 24 March 2013.

Works