An Autobiography; Author: Edmond, Lauris; Paperback

Author: Edmond, Lauris
2nd ed; Paperback
410 pages
Published: November 2001
Bridget Williams Books
ISBN: 1877242225

This remarkable autobiography of poet Lauris Edmond tells of her two lives. It recalls a Hawkes Bay childhood in an unconventional home, wartime life as a student in Wellington, and yearsspent as a mother and country schoolteacher. It speaks, too, of her second life, one in which she published some 15 volumes of poetry and became a Wellington writer of international renown -- a life that she humbly describes as no more real or important than her earlier life.This autobiography tells the story of Lauris Edmond's Hawkes Bay childhood in an unconventional home, wartime life as a student in Wellington, motherhood and years as a teacher. And then her second life when she published 15 volumes of poetry and became a Wellington writer.