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Rachel Barrowman
Rachel Barrowman
Born	1963 (age 61–62); Wellington, New Zealand
Language	English
Nationality	New Zealand
Genre	History
Notable awards	Montana New Zealand Book Award

Rachel Barrowman (born 1963) is a New Zealand author and historian, with a focus on New Zealand cultural and intellectual history.^[1]

Career

Barrowman's biography of R.A.K. Mason, Mason: The Life of R.A.K. Mason, won the 2004 Montana New Zealand Book Award in the biography category.^[2] In 2006, Barrowman received the Michael King Writer's Fellowship from Creative New Zealand to write a biography of Maurice Gee; she subsequently held a summer residency at the Michael King Writers Centre in 2010.^[1]^[3] The book, Maurice Gee: Life and Work, was a finalist for the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.^[4] Barrowman has also received the National Library Fellowship and the Stout Research Centre Fellowship.^[1]

Barrowman was born and resides in Wellington.^[5]

A Popular Vision: the Arts and the Left in New Zealand, 1930–1950 (1991, Victoria University Press)
The Turnbull: a Library and Its World (1995, Auckland University Press)
Victoria University of Wellington, 1899–1999: A History (1999, Victoria University Press)
Mason: The Life of R.A.K. Mason (2003, Victoria University Press)
Maurice Gee: Life and Work (2015, Victoria University Press)

Barrowman is also an editor of the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.^[6]

^ ^a ^b ^c "Rachel Barrowman: 2010 Summer Writers Residency". Michael King Writers Centre. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
^ "Past Winners by Author". New Zealand Book Awards Trust. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
^ "Rachel Barrowman awarded the largest writing fellowship in New Zealand". The Big Idea. 24 June 2006. Archived from the original on 12 December 2017.
^ "Ockham NZ Book Awards 2016 winners and finalists". The Listener. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
^ "Rachel Barrowman". The Spinoff. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
^ "Rachel Barrowman". New Zealand Book Council. Retrieved 11 December 2017.