Maurice Gee

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Maurice Gee, born 1931^[1] in Whakatane, New Zealand^[1], is one of New Zealand's most distinguished novelists^[2] and was awarded the 1978 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Plumb.

Contents 1 Life 2 Works 2.1 Novels 2.2 Short Stories: First Publication 3 Further reading 4 Adaptations 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Life

Maurice Gee was brought up in Henderson, a suburb of Auckland and a location that frequently features in his writing.^[1][2]

He is currently married and has three children, one of whom is also a writer, Emily Gee, and is an Honorary Associate of the New Zealand Association of Rationalists and Humanists.^[3]

[edit] Works

[edit] Novels

• The Big Season. London: Hutchinson, 1962. London: Arrow, 1964. Wellington: Allen & Unwin, 1985. ^[4].
• A Special Flower. London: Hutchinson, 1965.
• In My Father's Den. London: Faber, 1972. Auckland: Oxford UP, 1978.
• A Glorious Morning, Comrade. Auckland: Auckland UP and Oxford UP, 1975.
• Games of Choice. London: Faber, 1976. Auckland: Oxford UP, 1978.
• Under the Mountain. Wellington: Oxford UP, 1979. ^[4].
• The World Around the Corner. Wellington: Oxford UP, 1980.
• Plumb. London: Faber, 1981. ^[4]
• Meg. London: Faber, 1981. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. Auckland: Penguin ^[4].
• The Halfmen of O. Auckland: Oxford UP, 1982. Harmondsworth: Puffin, 1986.
• Sole Survivor. London: Faber, 1983. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. Auckland: Penguin, 1983. ^[4].
• The Priests of Ferris. Auckland: Oxford UP, 1984.
• Motherstone. Auckland: Oxford UP, 1985.
• The Fire-Raiser. Auckland: Puffin, 1986.
• Collected Stories. Auckland: Penguin, 1986. New York: Penguin, 1987.
• Prowlers. London and Boston: Faber, 1987.
• The Champion. Auckland : Puffin, 1989; New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
• The Burning Boy. London : Faber, 1990, 1992; Auckland : Viking, 1990.
• Going West. Auckland : Viking, 1992; London: Faber, 1992; Auckland: Penguin, 2000.
• Crime Story.Auckland : Penguin Books, 1994; Auckland: Viking, 1994; London: Faber, 1995.
• The Fat Man. Auckland : Viking, 1995; Auckland: Puffin, 2000.
• Plumb Trilogy. Auckland: Penguin, 1995.
• Loving Ways. Auckland : Penguin, 1996.
• Live Bodies. Auckland : Penguin, 1998; London: Faber, 1998; Scheuring: Black Ink, 2002 (German edition).
• Orchard Street. Auckland : Viking, 1998.
• Hostel Girl. Auckland : Puffin, 1999.
• Ellie and the Shadow Man. Auckland: Penguin, 2001.
• The Scournful Moon. Auckland: Penguin, 2003.
• Blindsight, Auckland: Penguin, 2005

[edit] Short Stories: First Publication

• In at the Death. Kiwi (1955): 21-26.
• The Widow. Landfall 9 (1955): 196-213. In GMC, CS ^[4].
• Evening at Home. Arena 45 (1956): 23-24.
• The Quarry. Arena 46 (1957): 6-10, 13.
• A Sleeping Face. Landfall 11 (1957): 194-221. In GMC, CS.
• A Girl in Blue. Mate 2 (1958): 10-19.
• While the Flag was Up. Arena 50 (1958-59): 13-17, 28.
• The Losers. Landfall 13 (1959): 120-47. In Landfall Country: Work from Landfall, 1947-1961. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1962, 24-56. In New Zealand Short Stories, Second Series. Ed. C.K. Stead. London: Oxford UP, 1966, 255-95. In GMC, CS.
• Facade. Mate. 4 (1960): 26-33.
• Schooldays. Mate. December 1960: 2-11. In GMC, CS.
• The Champion. Landfall 20 (1966): 113-25. In GMC, CS.
• Down in the World. Landfall 21 (1967): 296-302. In GMC, CS.
• A Retired Life. Landfall 23 (1969): 101-16. In GMC, CS.

[edit] Further reading

• The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, edited by Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie (1998).

[edit] Adaptations

• 1982 New Zealand TV series titled Under the Mountain^{[citation needed]}

[edit] See also

• New Zealand literature

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• More information about Maurice Gee's life and works is available at New Zealand Book Council
• Academic essay with citations: Dickensian grotesque in Maurice Gee's "The Fat Man"