Jessica Anderson

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Jessica Margaret Queale Anderson (born September 25, 1916) is an Australian novelist and short story writer.

Native of in Gayndah, Queensland, she moved to Brisbane in the 1920s, then Sydney in the 1930s, and was first published in the early 1960s. Drawing on close observation of ordinary life and character, Anderson's spare, precise writing deals with the undercurrents in family life, especially those of women.

She has several published novels and her short stories have appeared in magazines including The Bulletin, Meanjin and Heat.

Contents 1 Awards 2 Bibliography 2.1 Novels 2.2 Short story collections 3 Further reading

[edit] Awards

• Miles Franklin Literary Award, 1978: Tirra Lirra by the River
• Miles Franklin Literary Award, 1980: The Impersonators
• New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, 1981: The Impersonators
• The Age Book of the Year Award: 1987: Stories from the Warm Zone and Sydney Stories

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Novels

• An Ordinary Lunacy (1963)
• The Last Man's Head (1970)
• The Commandant (1975)
• Tirra Lirra By the River (1978)
• The Impersonators (1980)
• Taking Shelter (1989)
• One of the Wattle Birds (1994)

[edit] Short story collections

• Stories from the Warm Zone and Sydney Stories (1987)

[edit] Further reading

• Anderson, Jessica, "Starting Too Late", Meanjin 61.2, 2003, 209-216.
• Baker, Candida.Jessica Anderson. [Interview] Yacker 2: Australian Writers Talk About Their Work. Sydney: Picador, 1987. 14-27.
• Barry, Elaine. Fabricating the Self: The Fictions of Jessica Anderson. St Lucia: UQP, 1992.
• Bird, Delys. Rev. of Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson. Westerly 25 (1980): 78-80.
• Blair, Ruth. "Jessica Anderson's Mysteries." Island Magazine 31 (1987): 10-15.
• Ellison, Jennifer. Interview with Jessica Anderson. Rooms of Their Own. Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin, 1986. 28-49.
• Haynes, Roslyn. "Art as Reflection in Jessica Anderson's Tirra Lirra by the River." Australian Literary Studies 12 (1986): 316-23.
• Quigley, Marion. "Homesick: Women's Entrapment within the Father's House. A Comparative Study of the fiction of Helen Garner, *Beverley Farmer, Jessica Anderson and Elizabeth Harrower." Monash University, 1995.
• Sykes, Alrene. "Jessica Anderson: Arrivals and Places." Southerly 46.1 (1986): 57-71.