Tag: biography
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Flying a tattered flag for New Zealand film: Rudall Hayward’s 60-year career
In this month’s Friends of the Turnbull event, author and lecturer Annabel Cooper will talk about researching New Zealand filmmaker Rudall Hayward, best known for his silent films but also his later feature films ‘Rewi’s Last Stand’ and ‘To Love a Māori’.
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Life as a Novel: A biography of Maurice Shadbolt
Philip Temple, of Dunedin, gave an excellent outline of his new biography, Life as a Novel: A biography of Maurice Shadbolt, Vol One 1932-1973, published by David Ling (2018).
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Ian St George: William Frederick Howlett BA: Journalist, alpinist, naturalist, teacher
Dr Ian St George presents on William Howlett who arrived in New Zealand in 1875 to begin a peripatetic life as schoolteacher, storekeeper, satirist, alpinist, politician, naturalist and thorn in the side of authority – an articulate, straight-talking, intelligent, cynical man generally regarded as a bit odd.