- Jennifer Rankin
Jennifer Rankin (born Jennifer Mary Haynes) (
18 November 1941 —8 December 1979 ) was a 20th centuryAustralia npoet andplaywright . [ [http://april.edu.au/rankin-j/index.shtml APRIL - Jennifer Rankin Contents page ] ] Rankin was born in and grew up inSydney and went to Ravenswood Methodist School. She then studied English and Psychology atUniversity of Sydney and completed a Diploma of Education at UNE in 1968. She worked mainly in education in Australia andEngland .She married first John Roberts and secondly the painter
David Rankin (1969).Her first surviving poems date from 1969, her first play, untitled, from 1973. Some of her plays, there are eight in all, were produced for stage and radio during her lifetime. She received an
Australia Council Senior Literary Fellowship in 1978 and had two books of poems published. Her "Collected Poems" was edited posthumously byJudith Rodriguez and published in 1990.Bibliography
*"Art workshop". (1974)
*"Ritual". (1976)
*"Earth hold". (1978)
*"The mud hut". (1979)
*"Jennifer Rankin: Collected Poems". Ed.Judith Rodriguez (1990)References
External links
* [http://www.lib.adfa.edu.au/speccoll/finding_aids/rankin_jennifer.html Guide to the Papers of Jennifer Rankin] at the Australian Defence Force Academy Library
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NAME=Rankin, Jennifer
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Australian poet andplaywright
DATE OF BIRTH=18 November 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH=Sydney ,Australia
DATE OF DEATH=8 December 1979
PLACE OF DEATH=Australia
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