Stead, Christina (Ellen)

Stead, Christina (Ellen)
born July 17, 1902, Rockdale, Sydney, Austl.
died March 31, 1983, Sydney

Australian novelist.

She traveled widely and at various times lived in London, Paris, and the U.S., where in the early 1940s she worked as a screenwriter for MGM. She returned to Australia in 1974. Her first published work was a collection of short stories, The Salzburg Tales (1934). She is best remembered for her novel The Man Who Loved Children (1940), the story of a disintegrating family.

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