Maurice Gee

by Bill Manhire

In this biography of the eminent New Zealand author Maurice Gee, Manhire traces a career that has included major literary awards as well as a popular television serial of Gee's Under the Mountain. Among Gee's other works are a trilogy for children, which includes The Halfmen of O, the 1983 New Zealand Children's Book of the Year. As part of a series on New Zealand writers, this volume contributes to the growing interest in this vital new literary movement.

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Bill Manhire was born in Invercargill in 1946. He was his country's inaugural Poet Laureate and has won the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry four times. He holds a personal chair at the Victoria University of Wellington, where he directs the celebrated creative writing programme and the International Institute of Modern Letters. His volume of short fiction, South Pacific, was published by Carcanet in 1994.