Dr Joanne Drayton is an acclaimed New Zealand author whose output is globally recognized. Her book Hudson & Halls: The Food of Love was the winner of the coveted Royal Society Te Aparangi Award for General Non-fiction at the NZ Book Awards, and a cover story for the NZ Listener. Joanne’s The Search for Anne Perry was numbered in the top 10 non-fiction books on the New York Times bestseller list in 2015, was a finalist in the NZ Book Awards in 2013; was the subject of a 60 Minutes programme; and a cover story for the NZ Listener. Her critically acclaimed Ngaio Marsh: Her Life in Crime (2008) was a Christmas pick of the Independent newspaper in 2009. Her other biographical subjects include expatriate painters Frances Hodgkins, Rhona Haszard and Edith Collier. In 2007, she was awarded a National Library Fellowship, and in 2017 the prestigious Logan Fellowship at the Carey Institute in Upstate NY. Her latest book The Queen's Wife is a love-story and personal memoir.
Image credits: Joanne Drayton, photo by Dudley Reed. | Joanne Drayton, photo by Fiona Quinn.