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Joan Lindsay

1896 - 1984

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Joan à Beckett Weigall, Lady Lindsay (16 November 1896 – 23 December 1984) was an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and visual artist. Trained in her youth as a painter, she published her first literary work in 1936 at age forty under a pseudonym, a satirical novel titled Through Darkest Pondelayo. Her second novel, Time Without Clocks, was published nearly thirty years later, and was a semi-autobiographical account of the early years of her marriage to artist Sir Daryl Lindsay. In 1967, Lindsay published her most celebrated work, Picnic at Hanging Rock, a historical Gothic novel detailing the vanishing of three schoolgirls and their teacher at the site of a monolith during one summer. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joan Lindsay is the 6,134th most popular writer (down from 3,986th in 2019), the 369th most popular biography from Australia (down from 137th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Australian Writer.

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Among writers, Joan Lindsay ranks 6,134 out of 7,302. Before her are Claude Esteban, Dolores Redondo, John of Worcester, Peter Matthiessen, Zoé Valdés, and Amory Lovins. After her are Julio Llamazares, William Inge, Elizabeth F. Ellet, George Saunders, Martin Österdahl, and Padma Sachdev.

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Among people born in 1896, Joan Lindsay ranks 256. Before her are José Naya, Manuel Rojas, Józef Kałuża, Cyril Slater, Lawrence Tibbett, and Marie Prevost. After her are Keen Johnson, Priscilla Dean, Alan Mowbray, V. K. Krishna Menon, Adele Astaire, and Herb Drury. Among people deceased in 1984, Joan Lindsay ranks 247. Before her are Esther Phillips, Rosa Kellner, Paul Felix Schmidt, Mark Kac, John Betjeman, and Karl Neumer. After her are Jon-Erik Hexum, Bjarne Johnsen, Balasaraswati, Víctor Balaguer, Marcel Balsa, and Pascale Ogier.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Joan Lindsay ranks 369 out of 1,143. Before her are Poppy Montgomery (1972), Frank Forde (1890), Thomas Blamey (1884), Fanny Durack (1889), Jai Courtney (1986), and Jenny Lamy (1949). After her are Darren Hayes (1972), Jacinda Barrett (1972), Louis Mandylor (1966), Stephen Laybutt (1977), Alvin Ceccoli (1974), and Melissa George (1976).

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Among WRITERS In Australia

Among writers born in Australia, Joan Lindsay ranks 22. Before her are Greg Egan (1961), Patricia Wrightson (1921), Trudi Canavan (1969), Markus Zusak (1975), Banjo Paterson (1864), and Henry Lawson (1867). After her are Adam Elliot (1972), Robert Hughes (1938), Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920), Kate Morton (1976), DBC Pierre (1961), and Mary Augusta Ward (1851).

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