Hazel Joan Rowley (16 November 1951 – 1 March 2011) was a British-born Australian author and biographer.
She taught literary studies at Deakin University in Melbourne, before moving to the United States.
[1] Rowley's first published biography, of Australian novelist Christina Stead, was critically acclaimed and won the National Book Council's "Banjo" Award for non-fiction in 1994.
[4] Rowley suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in New York in February 2011[4] and died there on 1 March, aged 59.
[5] The annual Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship was set up in her memory in 2011, with Mary Hoban the inaugural winner in 2012.