An Autobiography

Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 2001 (second edition).

Lauris Edmond completed her remarkable three-volume autobiography in the early 1990s. It tells the story of a Hawke?s Bay childhood in an unconventional home, her student days in wartime Wellington, and the years raising a family and teaching throughout New Zealand.

The story then moves back to Wellington, where Edmond settles and launches a ?second life? as an acclaimed poet and writer. An Autobiography remains one of the great accounts of a New Zealand writer?s life and her writing, and a tribute to one whose gift it was to ?make the ordinary shine? in both poetry and prose.