Australian author
Dorothy Johnston |
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Born | 1948 Geelong, Victoria |
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Language | English |
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Nationality | Australian |
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Years active | 1975- |
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Notable works | One for the Master |
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Dorothy Johnston (born 1948) is an Australian author of both crime and literary fiction. She has published novels, short stories and essays.
Born in Geelong, Victoria, Australia, Johnston trained as a teacher at the University of Melbourne and later worked as a researcher in the education field.[1] She lived in Canberra from 1979 to 2008, and currently lives in Ocean Grove, Victoria (Australia).[2] She is a former President of Canberra PEN. She was a founding member of the Seven Writers Group,[3] also known as Seven Writers or the Canberra Seven,[4] established in March 1980. Five of the original members ceased with the group, but Johnston and Margaret Barbalet continued with new writers.[5]
She was a member of Writers Against Nuclear Arms, with her novel Maralinga, My Love, focusing on the impacts of nuclear testing in Australia.[6]
Novels
Her books include the Sandra Mahoney quartet of mystery novels.[10]
Sandra Mahoney series
Sea-Change Mystery series
- Through a Camel's Eye (2016)
- The Swan Island Connection (2017)
Standalone novels
- Tunnel Vision (1984)
- Ruth (1986)
- Maralinga, My Love (1988)
- One for the Master (1997)
- The House at Number 10 (2005)
Short stories
- "The New Parliament House" and "The Boatman Of Lake Burley Griffin", published in Canberra Tales: Stories (1988) (reprinted as The Division of Love: Stories, 1995); Below the Water Line (1999) and The Invisible Thread, A Hundred Years of Words (2012)
- "A Christmas Story", published in Motherlove (1996)
- "Two Wrecks", published in Best Australian Stories (2008) and Best Australian Stories: A Ten-year Collection (2011)
- "Quicksilver's Ride", published in Best Australian Stories (2009)
Essays
- "Female Sleuths And Family Matters: Can Genre and Literary Fiction Coalesce?", published in Australian Book Review (2000)
- "A Script With No Words", published in HEAT New Series 1 (2001)
- "Disturbing Undertones", published in The Griffith Review (2007)
- "But when she was bad...", published in The Australian Literary Review (2008)
- "The sounds of silence", published in The Age (2009)
- "Fiction's ever present danger", published in Spectrum (January 2011)