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Rachel Barrowman

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Rachel Barrowman is a biographer and historian. Her books include biographies of RAK Mason, and Maurice Gee. Rachel was born in Wellington in 1963.

Maurice Gee and James K Baxter

Ockham national book awards: The life and bohemian times of Maurice Gee

All week this week we preview books and authors who are finalists in next Tuesday's Ockham national book awards. Today: an excerpt from Rachel Barrowman's acclaimed biography of perhaps our greatest novelist, Maurice Gee.

By Rachel Barrowman | 4th May, 2016