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Rachel Barrowman (born 1963) is a New Zealand author and historian, with a focus on New Zealand cultural and intellectual history.[1]

Rachel Barrowman
Born	1963 (age 58–59) Wellington, New Zealand
Language	English
Nationality	New Zealand
Genre	History
Notable awards	Montana New Zealand Book Award

Career

Barrowman's biography of R.A.K. Mason, Mason: The Life of R.A.K. Mason, won the 2004 Montana New Zealand Book Award in the biography category.[2] In 2010, Barrowman received the Michael King Writer's Fellowship from Creative New Zealand to write a biography of Maurice Gee.[1][3] The book, Maurice Gee: Life and Work , was a finalist for the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.[4] Barrowman has also received the National Library Fellowship and the Stout Research Centre Fellowship.[1]

Personal life

Barrowman was born and resides in Wellington.[5]

Published books

• A Popular Vision: the Arts and the Left in New Zealand, 1930–1950 (1991, Victoria University Press)
• The Turnbull: a Library and Its World (1995, Auckland University Press)
• Victoria University of Wellington, 1899–1999: A History (1999, Victoria University Press)
• Mason: The Life of R.A.K. Mason (2003, Victoria University Press)
• Maurice Gee: Life and Work (2015, Victoria University Press)

Barrowman is also an editor of the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.[6]

References

Further reading

• Rachel Barrowman in the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection

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