Dennis McEldowney

Dennis McEldowney (1926–2003) was a New Zealand born author and publisher. His best known work was The World Regained. Auto-biographical in nature, it described how he dealt with being an invalid due to having a Tetralogy of Fallot. This book won McEldowney the 1958 Hubert Church Memorial Prize.^[1]

Early life

McEldowney was born on 29 January 1926^[2] in Wanganui. He was born with a congenital heart defect, Tetralogy of Fallot. Due to this heart condition, McEldowney was an invalid until the age of 24.

Education and career

Because of his medical condition, McEldowney was educated through a correspondence school. Eventually he took a clerical job at School of Physical Education in Dunedin. In 1966 he became the first editor Auckland University Press and remained there until his retirement in 1986. He was eventually given an honorary Doctorate by Auckland University.^[3]

Books

• Full of the Warm South [1]
• A Press Achieved : the emergence of Auckland University Press, 1927–1972, with a brief epilogue to 1986 and a list of Auckland University College, University of Auckland, and Auckland University Press publications,[2]
• Shaking the Bee Tree [3] Describes his marriage to Zoe Greenough also a "blue baby"
• Then and There: a 1970's diary [4]
• The World Regained [5]

References

1. ^ http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/mceldowney.html
2. ^ http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-120807.html
3. ^ http://web.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/aup/book/a-press-achieved.cfm

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Name	Maceldowney, Dennis
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Date of birth	1926
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Date of death	2003
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