Phipson, Joan

Award-winning Australian children's writer. She lived on a farm in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales and many of her books evoke the stress and satisfaction of living in the Australian countryside, floods, bushfires, drought and all. At a time when Australian literature was dominated by English and American books, Joan Phipson provided an authentic Australian voice. Her early books concerned family life in the country, animals, riding and sailing. During the 1970s her novels became more urban, complex, and tense and featured older teenage protagonists. The way home (1973) has three young protagonists surviving a car accident and a bush fire only to find that everything seems changed and they are traveling through different places and times, while Fly into danger (1977) deals with a brutal racket in rare bird smuggling.

Joan Phipson (Mrs Joan Fitzhardinge) is an internationally acclaimed children's writer who has published over thirty books.

Australian writer of children's books.

Australian children's author, born in Warrawee, New South Wales, Australia in 1912. She has written more than twenty-five novels in which she describes intense dramas dealing with personal and social conflict.