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Masters, Olga (111 works by) (birth name: Lawler, Olga) Writing name for: Lawler, Olga Born: 28 May 1919 Pambula, New South Wales Died: 27 Sep 1986 Wollongong, New South Wales Gender: Female Archives: Search for literary archives for Masters, Olga

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Olga Masters was born at Pambula, New South Wales, daughter of Joseph and Dorcas Lawler. She grew up during the 1930s depression and worked as a journalist with the Cobargo Chronicle from the age of fifteen. In 1937 she moved to Sydney, worked as a shorthand typist and writer of advertising copy for radio, and married Charles Masters, a schoolteacher, in 1940. The next twenty years were spent in New South Wales country towns raising seven children. Masters resumed her career as a journalist in 1....

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