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BIOGRAPHY
Janet Paterson Frame, novelist and poet, was born in Dunedin, New Zealand. She was one of five children born to a railway engineer and his wife. She spent her childhood in Oamaru. She was educated at the Univesrity of Otago Teachers Training College. After teaching for a year she became a caretaker of four elderly women. In 1947 she entered Seacliff Mental Hospital as a patient and spent seven yeras in different psychiatric hospitals.
Frame published her first collection of short stories, THE LAGOON, when she was 26. She won the Hubert Church Memorial Award for the book. She later received the Turnovsky Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts. Her autobiography was written in three volumes, TO THE ISLAND (1982), AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE (1984), and THE ENVOY FROM MIRROR CITY (1985).
CHRONOLOGY
1924 She was born in Dunedin, New Zealand. (August 28)
1937 One of her sister's died in a drowning accident.
1943 She entered the University of Otago Teachers Training College in Dunedin.
1947 A second sister died in a drowning accident.; She became a patient at Seacliff Mental Hospital.
1951 THE LAGOON
1957 OWLS DO CRY
1961 FACES IN THE WATER
1962 THE EDGE OF THE ALPHABET
1963 SCENTED GARDENS FOR THE BLIND; THE RESERVOIR; SNOWMAN, SNOWMAN
1965 THE ADAPTABLE MAN
1966 A STATE OF SIEGE
1967 THE POCKET MIRROR
1968 THE RAINBIRDS
1969 MONA MINIM AND THE SMELL OF THE SUN
1970 INTENSIVE CARE
1972 DAUGHTER BUFFALO
1981 LIVING IN THE MANIOTOTO
1982 TO THE IS-LAND
1984 AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE; YOU ARE NOW ENTERING THE HUMAN HEART
1985 THE ENVOY FROM MIRROR CITY
1988 THE CARPATHIANS
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