Barbara Lillias Romaine Anderson, Lady Anderson (née Wright, 14 April 1926 – 24 March 2013) was a New Zealand fiction writer who became internationally recognised and a best-selling author after her first book was published in her sixties.

[1] Born Barbara Lillias Romaine Wright in Hastings, she was educated at the University of Otago where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1947.

After a career as a medical technologist and as a teacher, she went back to university in Wellington, New Zealand, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Victoria University of Wellington in 1984.

Her short stories were published in journals and magazines such as Landfall, Sport and the New Zealand Listener.

[2] Her husband was knighted in 1982,[5] and she was subsequently styled Lady Anderson.