Rachel Barrowman (born 1963) is a New Zealand author and historian, with a focus on New Zealand cultural and intellectual history.
Mason, won the 2004 Montana New Zealand Book Award in the biography category.
[2] In 2006, Barrowman received the Michael King Writer's Fellowship from Creative New Zealand to write a biography of Maurice Gee; she subsequently held a summer residency at the Michael King Writers Centre in 2010.
[1][3] The book, Maurice Gee: Life and Work, was a finalist for the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
[5] Barrowman is also an editor of the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.