Jennifer Rowe

This article is about the Australian author. For the British civil servant, see Jenny Rowe.
Jennifer Rowe (Emily Rodda)
Born Jennifer June Rowe
(1948-04-02) 2 April 1948
Sydney
Residence Blue Mountains
Other names Emily Rodda, Mary-Anne Dickinson
Occupation Author
Known for Deltora Quest, Rowan of Rin, Teen Power Inc.
Children Kate Rowe (illustrator, singer, song writer), Hal Rowe, Clem Rowe, Alex Rowe
Website http://www.emilyrodda.com/

Jennifer June Rowe (born 2 April 1948) is an Australian author. Her crime fiction for adults is published under her own name, while her children's fiction is published under the pseudonyms Emily Rodda and Mary-Anne Dickinson.[1][2] She is well known for the children's fantasy series Deltora Quest, Rowan of Rin, Fairy Realm, Teen Power Inc., the Rondo trilogy, and The Three Doors trilogy.

Biography

Jennifer Rowe was born in Sydney, and raised with two younger brothers on Sydney's North Shore. Her father was Jim Oswin, the founding general manager of ATN7 in Sydney, and was responsible for classic 1960s TV shows such as My Name's McGooley, What's Yours? and The Mavis Bramston Show.[3] She attended the Abbotsleigh School for Girls on the upper North Shore of Sydney. She attained her Matrial Arts in English Literature at the University of Sydney in 1973. Her first job was assistant editor at Paul Hamlyn publishing. She later worked at Angus and Robertson Publishers where she remained for fourteen years as Editor, Senior Editor, managing director, Deputy Publisher and finally Publisher. During this time she began writing children's books under the pseudonym Emily Rodda (her grandmother's name). Her first book, Something Special, was published in 1984 and won the Australian Children's Book Council Book of the Year for Younger Readers Award. She has now won that award a record five times.[4] From 1984 to 1992, Rowe continued her career in publishing, then as Editor of the Australian Women's Weekly, while writing novels in her 'spare time'. In 1994 Rowe became a full-time writer. She now divides her working day between consultancies for book publishers and her own writing. She lives in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia with her husband Bob Ryan and her four children.[5]

Rowe's acclaimed Verity Birdwood murder mysteries for adults, written under her own name are: Grim Pickings (1988) (made into an Australian TV mini-series), Murder by the Book, Death in Store, The Makeover Murders and Strangehold. Later she also wrote about Homicide Detective Tessa Vance in Suspect (also published as Deadline) and Something Wicked, and both books were incorporated as episode story lines in the Australian TV-show Murder Call. Rowe also edited a collection of crime stories Love Lies Bleeding and has contributed to the 1997 "Crimes for Summer" collection Moonlight Becomes You.

Emily Rodda

The most notable of her children's works, authored under the pseudonym Emily Rodda, are the series Deltora Quest, Teen Power Inc., Fairy Realm and Rowan of Rin. The pseudonym is based on her grandmother's name.

Total worldwide sales across all the Deltora Quest series have now exceeded 15 million.[6] It has been published in Australia, New Zealand, the USA, Canada, Japan, Italy, Brazil, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey and the UK. A Deltora Quest anime series was broadcast on Japanese television in early 2007.

Among her other successful novels is the 1990 science fiction novel Finders Keepers which was made into a television series called The Finder, and the Teen Power Inc. series (re-published as The Raven Hill Mysteries), a mystery series involving six teenagers, both of which are written for young adults.

Her most recent books are the Star of Deltora series. The second book, Two Moons, was released in November 2015, while the third book, The Towers of Illica, is set to be released on April 1, 2016, and the fourth, The Hungry Isle, in September 2016.

Awards

Select bibliography

Fiction by Jennifer Rowe

Fiction edited by Jennifer Rowe

Non-fiction by Jennifer Rowe

Novels by Emily Rodda

"Early Readers" books by Emily Rodda

Picture Storybooks by Emily Rodda

Film and television

References

  1. ↑ http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=author:%22Dickinson,%20Mary-Anne,%201948-%22&iknowwhatimean=1
  2. ↑ http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=the+charm+bracelet&type=all&limits=
  3. ↑ http://www.angelfire.com/tv2/tessavance/creators/rowe.htm
  4. ↑ Biography at EmilyRodda.com
  5. ↑ http://www.emilyrodda.com/deltoraanime.html
  6. ↑ Scholastic Australian News at Scholastic.com.au
  7. ↑ "Dromkeen Medal". Scholastic. Retrieved 15 July 2007.
  8. ↑ "Mystery Short Fiction: 1990–2006". William G. Contento. Retrieved 24 March 2008.
  9. ↑ http://www.goodreads.com/series/160435-star-of-deltora
  10. ↑ http://www.australiantelevision.net/finders_keepers/
  11. ↑ http://www.australiantelevision.net/murdercall/murdercall.html

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