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June Wright June Wright i(A28176 works by) (birth name: June Healy ) (a.k.a. Dorothy June Wright)
Born: Established: 29 Jun 1919 Melbourne, Victoria, ; Died: Ceased: 4 Feb 2012 Clayton, Murrumbeena - Oakleigh - Springvale area, Melbourne South East, Melbourne, Victoria,
Gender: Female
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June Wright was born June Healy, daughter of Dora and Gerald Healy, in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern. Some newspaper articles suggest her grandfather, John Healy, was a Melbourne writer, who also wrote as 'An Onlooker'. Both her grandfather and father appear to have been successful cricketers (to the Sheffield Shield level), but this has not yet been confirmed.

Wright was educated at Brigidine Convent (later named Kildara) and Vaucluse College, both in Melbourne, Loreto (Maryyatville, Adelaide) and Mandeville Hall (Toorak, Melbourne).

As a young woman, she worked in the Melbourne Central Telephone Exchange, the setting for her first novel (Murder in the Telephone Exchange). Following her marriage to Stewart Wright, and the birth of her first son, Patrick, she began writing. She published a further five novels but largely relinquished her literary career in the mid-1960s after a breakdown in her husband's health.

Wright returned to writing in the early 1990s. A three-volume autobiography (The Collected Works of June Wright : Non-Fiction) was privately published.

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y separately published work icon Murder in the Telephone Exchange London : Hutchinson , 1948 Z145873 1948 single work novel crime detective

'June Wright’s debut stars feisty young telephonist Maggie Byrnes. When one of her more unpopular colleagues at Melbourne Central is murdered – her head bashed in with a “buttinsky,” a piece of equipment used to listen in on phone calls – Maggie resolves to turn sleuth. A couple of her co-workers are acting strangely, and Maggie is convinced she has a better chance of figuring out who is responsible for the killing than the stodgy police team assigned to the case, who seem to think she herself might have had something to do with it. But then one of her friends is murdered too, and it looks like Maggie might be next in line. ' (Publication summary)
1948 winner United Nations Literary Contest — Detective Story Section
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