Olga Stringfellow

Olga Stringfellow (4 June 1923 – 1995) was a New Zealand journalist and author of romantic and historical fiction.

Stringfellow was born in Dunedin as Olga Elsa Brown on 4 June 1923.

After a time in journalism, with the Modern Woman and The Sketch, and as a columnist for the Scottish Daily Express, she became an author.

Her published works include the historical novels Mary Bravender (1960), set at the time of the New Zealand Wars, and A Gift for the Sultan (1962), based on the true account of a Scottish woman captured by pirates, sold into slavery, and eventually becoming a wife of the Sultan of Morocco.

In later years Stringfellow lived at Hartley Wintney, near Basingstoke, Hampshire.