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Joan Lindsay

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Profession
Novelist
Died
Dec 23, 1984
Zodiac
Scorpio
Born in
MelbourneAustralia
About
Famous for her 1967 novel Picnic at Hanging Rock, this twentieth-century Australian writer also penned a children's book titled Syd Sixpence (1983) and several satirical works and memoirs.
Family
Born Joan à Beckett Weigall, she grew up in Victoria, Australia, as the daughter of Ann Sophie Hamilton and judge Theyre à Beckett Weigall. Her 1962 memoir Time Without Clocks discusses the early years of her marriage to artist Daryl Lindsay.

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