Elizabeth Harrower (8 February 1928[1] – 7 July 2020) was an Australian novelist and short story writer.
She was born and spent her childhood in industrial Newcastle, New South Wales, living with her grandmother after the divorce of her parents.
In 1971 her fifth novel In Certain Circles was set to be published until she abruptly withdrew it from publication following the death of her mother.
[4] In an interview with The Australian, Harrower claimed that she had written the book under pressure after receiving a grant and called the act of writing it "forced labour".
In 2012, following a period of obscurity during which all of her novels fell out of print, Harrower experienced a small revival when Michael Heyward and Penny Hueston, editors of the independent press Text Publishing, began to reprint her works.