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Elizabeth O'Conner (1913 – 6 May 2000), born under the name Barbara Willard Lowe, was an Australian novelist. Elizabeth O'Conner was born in Dunedoo in New South Wales. After a childhood spent in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales, she studied art in Adelaide and Sydney, before teaching at a Brisbane girls' boarding school.

She married Philip Birmingham McNamara, manager of a cattle station in March 1942 and moved to Queensland's Gulf Country, where she had four children. She died in Atherton, Queensland in 2000.

Bibliography

Novels

• The Irishman (1960)
• Find a Woman (1963)
• The Chinee Bird (1966)
• The Winds of Fate (1977) - published under the pseudonym Anne Willard
• Spirit Man (1980)
• Darling Caroline (1980) - published under the pseudonym Anne Willard

Autobiography

• Steak for Breakfast (1958)
• A Second Helping (1969)

Awards

• 1960 — winner Miles Franklin Award for The Irishman

References

1. Austlit - Elizabeth O'Conner
2. "Marriage - Barbara Willard Lowe". www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
3. Australian Women's Weekly 03.12.1958
4. "When "The Irishman" came to town". The Australian Women's Weekly, 29 March 1978, p11. Retrieved 4 July 2023.

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