Biography 2009

MONTANA MEDAL WINNER FOR NON-FICTION 2009

Rita Angus: An Artist's Life - Jill Trevelyan

Te Papa Press, ISBN 978-1-877385-39-1, $69.99 hbk

The Love School: Personal Essays - Elizabeth Knox

Victoria University Press, ISBN 978-0-86473-592-8, $35.00 pbk

The Love School collects more than twenty years of Elizabeth Knox’s non-fiction. These frank and revealing essays and talks tell the story of her writing’s beginnings, while later pieces give insights into the life of an author, and touch on the imaginative roots of Knox’s novels.

Heaphy - Iain Sharp

Auckland University Press, ISBN 978-1-86940-421-5, $65.00 hbk

The first New Zealander to win the Victoria Cross, the first Pakeha to explore the West Coast of the South Island and New Zealand’s most distinguished nineteenth-century landscape painter: by any measure, Charles Heaphy was a central figure in colonial New Zealand. In this engaging book, lavishly illustrated with Charles Heaphy’s paintings, drawings and maps, Iain Sharp reveals the story of Heaphy’s art and life.