Watson, Jean (1933–)
Watson, Jean (1933–)
New Zealand novelist and short-story writer. Born 1933 on a farm near Whangarei, New Zealand; graduate of Victoria University; m. Barry Crump (writer).
Probably best known for Stand in the Rain (1965), which was reissued in 1985 and 1995; also wrote The Balloon Watchers (1975), The World is an Orange and the Sun (1978), Address to a King (1986) and Three Sea Stories (1994).
See also memoir, Karunai Illam: The Story of an Orphanage (1992), about her involvement with the founding of an orphanage in southern India.
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