Sara Douglass biography
Sara Douglass grew up in South Australia. After working as a nurse‚ she completed three degrees at the University of Adelaide‚ including a PhD in early modern English history. She worked as a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at La Trobe University‚ Bendigo. Sara now lives in Tasmania and is a full-time writer and gardener.
The following excerpt has been taken from the official Sara Douglass website.
"Sara Douglass not my birth name - I'm actually Sara Warneke, but if I'd been a boy I would have been called Douglass ... so when my first publisher HarperCollins Australia insisted I choose a different surname to get me off the lowest shelves in bookshops, I went with 'Douglass' with the double 'ss' to feminize it. I was born in 1957 in Penola, a small town in the south-east of South Australia. My parents, two older sisters and older brother lived on a farm called Gundealga (look out for the name in the Axis books) where Dad and Mum farmed sheep and a lot of hope. I loved the farm, and hated leaving it to go to school and, eventually, to move to the capital city of South Australia, Adelaide, when I was about seven. We moved to Fisher Street in Malvern, a southern suburb, living in an old and gently decaying bluestone Victorian house (which I still dream of regularly ... it was the house where I did most of my growing up). I was packed off to school, Methodist Ladies College, which was gentle, gentile and caring, and totally oblivious to the social revolutions of the 'sixties'."
Sara Douglass books
The Axis Trilogy
- Battleaxe (1995)
- Enchanter (1996)
- StarMan (1996)
The Wayfarer Redemption
- Sinner (1997)
- Pilgrim (1998)
- Crusader (1999)
The Crucible
- The Nameless Day (2000)
- The Wounded Hawk (2001)
- The Crippled Angel (2002)
The Troy Game
- Hades' Daughter (2002)
- Gods' Concubine (2004)
- Darkwitch Rising (2005)
- Druid's Sword (2006)
Darkglass Mountain
- The Serpent Bride (2007)
- The Twisted Citadel (2008)
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This interview is an edited version of an online chat with Sara Douglass on community.news.com.au Monday‚ 29th November 1999 8pm AEDT - Sara Douglass interview.
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