Joan ColebrookJoan Colebrook (Heale) (1910–1991) was an Australian American writer and journalist. LifeJoan Moffat Heale was born on 31 August 1910[1] and grew up on a dairy farm in Queensland, Australia.[2] She took a BA from the University of Queensland in 1932 and worked as a freelance journalist.[2][3] She married Mulford Albert Colebrook in 1933[4] and moved to England before settling permanently in Cape Cod in the US in the late 1940s.[2] She had two sons and a daughter.[5] WorksColebrook wrote several novels and non-fiction books. She wrote journalism for magazines including Commentary, The New Republic and The New Yorker.[5][2] One of her best received works was The Cross of Latitude, based on her experience as a social-worker and women's prison officer.[5] Novels
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