Sara Douglass biography

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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)

Sara Douglass interviews

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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