Susan Wyndham

Susan Wyndham is a journalist and author of the literary biography Elizabeth Harrower: The Woman in the Watch Tower

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Susan Wyndham

Susan Wyndham is a writer, journalist and former literary editor of The Sydney Morning Herald. Her most recent book (published by NewSouth in October 2025) is Elizabeth Harrower: The Woman in the Watch Tower, a biography of an important and elusive Australian novelist of the 20th century. She is the co-editor with Brigitta Olubas of Hazzard and Harrower: The Letters, and has written, edited or contributed to several other books.

Festival Events

My Father Bryce: Adam Courtenay in Conversation

DATE March 28 TIME 1:00 pm WHEREUniversity of Newcastle NUspace X320 Book now

The Lost Women of Australian Literature

DATE March 29 TIME 11:30 am WHEREUniversity of Newcastle NUspace X301 Book now

BY THE ARTIST

A deep purple book cover filled with a head and shoulders photograph of a short-haired woman looking straight at the camera with a blank expression. The photograph has a dark purple filter and the title "Elizabeth Harrower" is in white letters overlaid, with the subtitle in green below.

Elizabeth Harrower

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