From the Centre: A writer’s life - Patricia Grace (2021)
In this remarkable memoir of a remarkable writer, Patricia Grace accompanies us through her whānau, childhood, education, marriage, career and later life with her customary literary panache.
Publication details
Patricia Grace. (Auckland: Penguin Books, 2021).
About the book
With photographs and quotes from her many, hugely loved books, Patricia Grace begins with her grandparents and parents and takes us through her childhood, her education, marriage and up to the present day in this touching and self-deprecating story of her life, the life of a writer, of a Maori woman and of a teacher. It expresses the love for family and for ancestral land; shows the prejudices she had to face and that made her stronger; and tracks her career as a writer.
‘We live by the sea, which hems and stitches the scalloped edges of the land.’
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This book is part of a series marking the publication of Books of Mana (Otago University Press, 2025). It builds on the project Te Takarangi: Celebrating Māori publications and adds 30 titles to a selected list of 150 non-fiction books, led by Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga in collaboration with Royal Society Te Apārangi.