Joan Colebrook (Heale) (1910–1991) was an Australian American writer and journalist.

Life

Joan Moffat Heale was born on 31 August 1910 and grew up on a dairy farm in

Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...

, Australia. She took a BA from the

University of Queensland The University of Queensland is a Public university, public research university located primarily in Brisbane, the capital city of the Australian state of Queensland. Founded in 1909 by the Queensland parliament, UQ is one of the six sandstone ...

in 1932 and worked as a freelance journalist. She married Mulford Albert Colebrook in 1933 and moved to England before settling permanently in Cape Cod in the US in the late 1940s. She had two sons and a daughter.

Works

Colebrook wrote several novels and non-fiction books. She wrote journalism for magazines including ''Commentary, The New Republic'' and ''The New Yorker''. One of her best received works was ''The Cross of Latitude,'' based on her experience as a social-worker and women's prison officer.

Novels

* ''All That Seemed Final'' (1941) * ''The Northerner'' (1948)

Nonfiction

* ''The Cross of Latitude'' (1968) * ''Innocents of the West'' (1979) * ''A House of Trees'' (1987).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Colebrook, Joan 1910 births 1991 deaths Australian emigrants to the United States Journalists from Queensland American journalists American women journalists University of Queensland alumni American women novelists 20th-century American novelists 20th-century Australian novelists Australian women novelists