Elizabeth O'Conner

Elizabeth O'Conner (1913 – 6 May 2000), born under the name Barbara Willard Lowe, was an Australian novelist. Elizabeth O'Conner was born in Dunedoo in New South Wales. After a childhood spent in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales, she studied art in Adelaide and Sydney, before teaching at a Brisbane girls' boarding school.^[1]

Elizabeth O'Conner
Born	Barbara Willard Lowe 1913 Dunedoo, New South Wales, Australia
Died	6 May 2000(2000-05-06) (aged 86–87) Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Pen name	Anne Willard
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	Australian
Period	1958–1989
Notable works	The Irishman Steak for Breakfast
Notable awards	Miles Franklin Award, 1960

She married Philip Birmingham McNamara, manager of a cattle station in March 1942^[2] and moved to Queensland's Gulf Country, where she had four children.^[3] She died in Atherton, Queensland in 2000.

Bibliography

Novels

• The Irishman (1960)
• Find a Woman (1963)
• The Chinee Bird (1966)
• The Winds of Fate (1977) - published under the pseudonym Anne Willard
• Spirit Man (1980)
• Darling Caroline (1980) - published under the pseudonym Anne Willard

Autobiography

• Steak for Breakfast (1958)
• A Second Helping (1969)

Awards

• 1960 — winner Miles Franklin Award for The Irishman^[4]