[2] In December 1982, publisher Richard Walsh of Angus & Robertson commissioned Roe to write a biography of Miles Franklin.
Roe delivered the manuscript for Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography 26 years later in 2008, and it was published by HarperCollins (which had taken over Angus & Robertson).
[3] A follow-up edition titled Her Brilliant Career: The Life of Stella Miles Franklin was published in 2009.
[4] Roe died after a long illness on 12 January 2017, at her home in Pearl Beach on the New South Wales Central Coast.
[6] She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA) in 1991[7] and the Federation of Australian Historical Societies (FFAHS).