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Anne Morgan was born in Hobart, Tasmania in 1954 and was educated at St Joseph’s School and Mt Carmel College.
As the second eldest child in a family of six boys and two girls, Anne used to try to dodge the nightly mountain of washing up by offering to put her younger brothers to bed and read them a bedtime story. This suited Anne and her brothers, Simon and Dominic, admirably, and for years they indulged in reading and listening to classic children’s stories such as:
- the Moomintroll series,
- Winnie the Pooh,
- The Wizard of
Oz,
- The Wind in the Willows; and
- the Narnia Books.
Anne then worked as an actor touring outback schools with the Queensland Theatre Company before returning to Tasmania to teach life skills to of unemployed young people. She spent a year touring Europe and living in Ireland, where her father was born, and picking grapes in France, before completing a Master of Education degree at the University of Tasmania.
She then worked for Community Aid Abroad (now Oxfam Australia) and in various public service jobs, including Aboriginal education and employment, staff training, research, journalism and public affairs.
Anne’s children, Nick and Miranda, were born in 1985 and 1988, and she was delighted again to have the chance to read aloud a newer crop of children’s books as well as the classics. Mem Fox, Pamela Allen, Roald Dahl and Paul Jenning were her children’s favourites. Tragically, Miranda, who was a constant source of joy and inspiration to Anne and others, died in a car accident in October 2006, a week after her eighteenth birthday. Anne is resolved to keep on writing for children, however, to honour Miranda’s fine imaginative, adventurous and loving spirit.
Anne currently lives in Western Australia where she is completing a PhD in Writing at Edith Cowan University. Her PhD novel concerns the search for the origins of a headless ship’s figurehead that was found on Macquarie Island in 1973.
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