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Born: 8 Nov 1919 Barcaldine, Queensland
Died: Aug 1986
Gender: Female
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Full biographical information is only available to AustLit Subscribers. A truncated and unformatted biographical extract follows: Ruth Manley wanted to write from an early age. She had short stories published in magazines and newspapers such as Woman and the Brisbane Courier during her early teens through to the 1950s. She majored in German at the University of Queensland and returned there later in life to study Japanese language and literature. Her Japanese studies inspired her to write her first children's novel Plum-Rain Scroll which was accepted by the first publisher she sent it to and subsequently won the 1979 Austr....To gain full access to the AustLit database become a subscriber. |
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Last amended:
12 Oct 2008