Barbara Anderson (writer)

Barbara Anderson (writer)

Barbara Anderson, Lady Anderson (born in 1926) is a New Zealander fiction writer who has become internationally recognized, despite only starting her writing career in her late fifties. Her general writings are somewhat similar to that of Anita Brookner, Raymond Carver, Margaret Drabble, and Bernice Rubens.

Born in Hastings, New Zealand, she was educated at the University of Otago where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1947. After a career as a medical technologist and as a teacher, she went back to college in Wellington, New Zealand, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Victoria University of Wellington in 1984.

Her late husband was former Chief of New Zealand Defence Staff Vice-Admiral Sir Neil Dudley Anderson.

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