Libby Gleeson
, b. 1950
Author Libby Gleeson was born in Young, New South Wales, Australia, the third of six children. As a child she moved to other NSW country towns when their father, a school teacher, was transferred to Dubbo and Glen Innes. In country towns with no television she read a lot, with weekly visits to the public library. Gleeson studied history at university during the Vietnam War and the rise of the women’s movement. After gaining her Bachelor of Arts and Diploma of Education from the University of Sydney, she taught for two years at Picton, New South Wales. In 1976 she travelled for five years, teaching English in Italy and then London, where she continued to write her first novel, Eleanor Elizabeth, (1984) before returning to Australia to teach at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She now writes full time.
Gleeson has a distinguished career as a writer of picture books, fiction for younger readers and young adults as well as non-fiction. Her works have been shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia awards. In 1997 she was awarded the Lady Cutler Award for Services to Children’s Literature.
Bio prepared by Margaret Bromley, University of New England, mbromle5@une.edu.au and brom_ken@bigpond.net
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