Elizabeth O'Conner

Elizabeth O'Conner (1913 - May 2000) under the name Barbara Lowe is 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.

She married in 1942 and moved to Queensland's Gulf Country, where she had four children. She died in Atherton, Queensland in 2000.

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