Hilary Jane McPhee AO (born 1941) is an Australian writer and editor. She was awarded an Order of Australia for service to the Arts in 2003.
Hilary Jane McPhee (AO) | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1941 (age 82–83) Australia |
| Education | University of Melbourne, Monash University |
| Occupation(s) | writer, editor |
| Known for | Co-founding publishing firm McPhee Gribble with Di Gribble |
Biography
editMcPhee was born in 1941.[1] She is a graduate of the University of Melbourne.
She was a founding director, with Diana Gribble, of McPhee Gribble Publishers, 1975–89, and Chair of the Australia Council for the Arts and of the Major Organizations Board 1994-7, a founding director and sometime editor of online political newsletter NewMatilda.com. She has an honorary doctorate from Monash University, was the inaugural Vice-Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Melbourne and remains a senior Fellow of the University.
From 2006-10 she was living and working between the Middle East and Italy, writing a book about the region and articles about matching philanthropic initiatives to the needs of young people. Her marriage in 1986 to writer Don Watson ended in divorce in 2009.
Other People's Words, published in 2001, documents her publishing life. Her selection of Australian writing, Wordlines, was published in 2010. She annotated and edited film maker Tim Burstall's diaries from the early 1950s, published by MUP as Memoirs of a Young Bastard: the Diaries of Tim Burstall.
Other People's Houses, is a memoir, it was published by MUP in November 2019.
She was awarded an Order of Australia for service to the Arts in 2003.
In 2016, The Hilary McPhee Award for an essay published in Meanjin was established by the University of Melbourne, from a donation made by McPhee's brother Professor Peter McPhee.[2]
Private life
editShe married artist Peter Freeman in 1964 with whom she has a daughter, Sara Harriet Freeman, and a son, Rupert. In 1976 she married publisher, John Michie with whom she has a son, James.
Bibliography
edit- Other People's Words (2001, Picador) ISBN 0330491555
- Wordlines: Contemporary Australian Writing editor, (2010, Five Mile Press) ISBN 9781742116587
- Other People's Houses (2019, MUP) ISBN 9780522875645
References
edit- ^ Melbourne, The University of. "McPhee, Hilary - Woman - The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia". www.womenaustralia.info. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
- ^ "UTR6.358 Hilary McPhee Award (2016 - )". The University of Melbourne. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
External links
edit- McPhee, Hilary (1941–) at The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia