Hazel Rowley

Hazel Joan Rowley ( born November 16, 1951 in London, England; † March 1, 2011 in New York City ) was an Australian non-fiction writer and biographer.

Life

The family of Hazel Joan Rowley emigrated to Australia when she was about eight years old. She grew up in Adelaide. Later she studied at the University of Adelaide, where she graduated with honors in French and German. She received her Ph.D. in French, in which she dealt with Simone de Beauvoir, which they also interviewed personally in the 1970s. Even before she emigrated to the United States, they have been teaching for a while literature at Deakin University in Melbourne. They later gained notoriety with four written of her biographies. So they wrote about the Australian writer Christina Stead, the American writer Richard Wright and the marriages of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean -Paul Sartre, and of Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Her most famous book Tête -à -tête: The Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean -Paul Sartre in 2007 under the title tête-à- tête: The Life and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean -Paul Sartre by Partha Verlag in German published language.

In February 2011, Rowley suffered an intracerebral hemorrhage, the consequences of which she died on 1 March 2011 at the age of 58 years.

Works

• Christina Stead: A Biography (1994 )
• Richard Wright: The Life and Times (2001)
• Tête -à -tête: The Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean -Paul Sartre (2005) Tête -à -tête: The Life and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean -Paul Sartre, Partha Verlag ( 2007), 509 pages, ISBN 978-3-86601-667-5