'''Janet Paterson Frame''', [[Order of New Zealand|ONZ]], [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (28 August 1924 - 29 January 2004) was a writer from New Zealand. She published eleven novels, four collections of short stories, a book of poetry, an edition of juvenile fiction, and three volumes of autobiography. Since her death, a twelfth novel, a second volume of poetry, and a handful of previously unpublished short stories have been posthumously released. Frame was known for her dramatic personal history as well as her writing. She was scheduled for a [[lobotomy]] that was cancelled when her first book was awarded a national literary prize.<ref name=NYT>{{cite web|title= Janet Frame, 79, Writer Who Explored Madness|first= Douglas|last= Martin|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980CE6DF1138F933A05752C0A9629C8B63|date= January 30, 2004|work=New York Times|accessdate=2007-11-17}}</ref> Several biographical myths are associated with Frame,<ref>Brown, R. "The unraveling of a mad myth." ''Women's Studies Journal'' 7(1): 66-74.</ref><ref>Wiske, Maria. ''Materialisations of a Woman Writer: Investigating Janet Frame's Biographical Legend'' Peter Lang (SW): 2006</ref> partly as a result of her traumatic personal experiences. Some of these featured in her work.<ref>[[#refKing2000|King 2000]], pp. 84, 170-74, 210, 220,23, 287, 377, 456.</ref> Frame was described by scholar Simone Oettli as a writer who simulaneously sought fame and anonymity,<ref>Oettli, Simone. Rev. ''Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame,'' by Michael King. ''World Literature Today'' 76.1 Winter 2002: 142.</ref> Frame eschewed the dominant New Zealand literary realism of the post-war era, combining prose, poetry, and modernist elements with a [[Magic realism|magical realist style]],<ref name="Herald">[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=3546633 "A literary angel mourned"] - ''[[New Zealand Herald]]'', Saturday 31 January 2004</ref> garnering numerous literary prizes in spite of mixed critical and public reception.<ref>Reid, Tony. "Visionary view of the 'tapestry of words.'" Interview with Janet Frame. ''New Zealand Herald'' February 12, 1983: 2.1</ref> Her status as a respected novelist of international repute, coupled with her remarkable life story – as recounted in number of works, including her own autobiographical trilogy and director [[Jane Campion]]'s popular [[An Angel at My Table|film adaptation of the texts]] – have earned Frame a place in twentieth-century literary history.
'''Janet Paterson Frame''', [[Order of New Zealand|ONZ]], [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (28 August 1924 - 29 January 2004) was a writer from New Zealand. She published eleven novels, four collections of short stories, a book of poetry, an edition of juvenile fiction, and three volumes of autobiography. Since her death, a twelfth novel, a second volume of poetry, and a handful of short stories have been released. Frame was known for her dramatic personal history as well as her writing. She was scheduled for a [[lobotomy]] that was cancelled when her first book was awarded a national literary prize.<ref name=NYT>{{cite web|title= Janet Frame, 79, Writer Who Explored Madness|first= Douglas|last= Martin|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980CE6DF1138F933A05752C0A9629C8B63|date= January 30, 2004|work=New York Times|accessdate=2007-11-17}}</ref> Several biographical myths are associated with Frame,<ref>Brown, R. "The unraveling of a mad myth." ''Women's Studies Journal'' 7(1): 66-74.</ref><ref>Wiske, Maria. ''Materialisations of a Woman Writer: Investigating Janet Frame's Biographical Legend'' Peter Lang (SW): 2006</ref> partly as a result of her traumatic personal experiences. Some of these featured in her work.<ref>[[#refKing2000|King 2000]], pp. 84, 170-74, 210, 220,23, 287, 377, 456.</ref> Frame was described by scholar Simone Oettli as a writer who simulaneously sought fame and anonymity,<ref>Oettli, Simone. Rev. ''Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame,'' by Michael King. ''World Literature Today'' 76.1 Winter 2002: 142.</ref> Frame eschewed the dominant New Zealand literary realism of the post-war era, combining prose, poetry, and modernist elements with a [[Magic realism|magical realist style]],<ref name="Herald">[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=3546633 "A literary angel mourned"] - ''[[New Zealand Herald]]'', Saturday 31 January 2004</ref> garnering numerous literary prizes in spite of mixed critical and public reception.<ref>Reid, Tony. "Visionary view of the 'tapestry of words.'" Interview with Janet Frame. ''New Zealand Herald'' February 12, 1983: 2.1</ref> Her status as a respected novelist of international repute, coupled with her remarkable life story – as recounted in number of works, including her own autobiographical trilogy and director [[Jane Campion]]'s popular [[An Angel at My Table|film adaptation of the texts]] – have earned Frame a place in twentieth-century literary history.
Janet Paterson Frame, ONZ, CBE (28 August 1924 - 29 January 2004) was a writer from New Zealand. She published eleven novels, four collections of short stories, a book of poetry, an edition of juvenile fiction, and three volumes of autobiography. Since her death, a twelfth novel, a second volume of poetry, and a handful of short stories have been released. Frame was known for her dramatic personal history as well as her writing. She was scheduled for a lobotomy that was cancelled when her first book was awarded a national literary prize.[1] Several biographical myths are associated with Frame,[2][3] partly as a result of her traumatic personal experiences. Some of these featured in her work.[4] Frame was described by scholar Simone Oettli as a writer who simulaneously sought fame and anonymity,[5] Frame eschewed the dominant New Zealand literary realism of the post-war era, combining prose, poetry, and modernist elements with a magical realist style,[6] garnering numerous literary prizes in spite of mixed critical and public reception.[7] Her status as a respected novelist of international repute, coupled with her remarkable life story – as recounted in number of works, including her own autobiographical trilogy and director Jane Campion's popular film adaptation of the texts – have earned Frame a place in twentieth-century literary history.
Biographical overview
Oamaru: The clock tower on the old Post Office, vividly described in Frame's debut novel, Owls Do Cry, as well as in her third volume of autobiography, The Envoy from Mirror City
Janet Frame, born in Dunedin in the south-east of New Zealand's South Island as the third of five children of Scottish New Zealander parents,[8] grew up in a working class family. Her father, George Frame, worked for the New Zealand railways, and her mother Lottie (née Godfrey), had served as a housemaid to the family of writer Katherine Mansfield. Dr Emily Hancock Siedeberg, New Zealand's first female medical graduate, delivered Frame at St. Helen's Hospital in 1924.
Frame spent her early childhood years in various small towns in New Zealand's South Island provinces of Otago and Southland, including Outram and Wyndham, before the family eventually settled in the coastal town of Oamaru (recognisable as the "Waimaru" of her début novel and further featured in her subsequent fiction[9]). As recounted in the first volume of her autobiographies, Frame's childhood was marred by the deaths of two of her adolescent sisters, Myrtle and Isabel, both of whom drowned in separate incidents, and the epileptic seizures suffered by her brother George (referred to as "Geordie" and "Bruddie").[10]
In 1943 Frame began training as a teacher at the Dunedin College of Education, auditing courses in English, French and psychology at the adjacent University of Otago.[11] After completing her two years of theoretical studies with mixed results,[12] Frame started a year of practical placement at the Arthur Street School in Dunedin, which, according to her biographer, initially went quite well.[13] Things started to unravel later that year when, following a suicide attempt involving a packet of aspirin, Frame began regular therapy sessions with junior lecturer John Money, to whom she developed a strong attraction,[14] and whose later work as a sexologist specialising in gender reassignment remains[update] controversial.[15]
Seacliff Lunatic Asylum, where Frame was first committed in 1945.
In September 1945, Frame, still enrolled in teacher training, abandoned her classroom at Dunedin's Arthur Street School during a scheduled visit from an inspector,[16][17] and shortly thereafter was admitted to the psychiatric ward of the local Dunedin hospital for a brief period of observation.[18] Unwilling to return home to her family, where tensions between her father and brother had become increasingly unbearable, Frame was then committed to Seacliff Lunatic Asylum.[19] Over the course of the next eight years, Frame was repeatedly readmitted, most often voluntarily, to a number of psychiatric hospitals in New Zealand, which, in addition to Seacliff Lunatic Asylum, also included Avondale, in Auckland, and SunnysideinChristchurch. During this period, Frame was first diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia,[20] which at the time was treated with electroconvulsive therapy and insulin.[21]
In 1951, while she was still a patient at Seacliff Lunatic Asylum, New Zealand's Caxton Press published Frame's first book, a collection of shorts titled The Lagoon and Other Stories.[22] The volume was awarded the Hubert Church Memorial Award, at that time one of the nation's most prestigious literary prizes, and resulted in the cancellation of Frame's scheduled lobotomy.[23][24] Four years later, following her final discharge from Seacliff Lunatic Asylum, Frame met writer Frank Sargeson.[25] and, from April 1955 to July 1956, lived and worked out of his home in the Auckland suburb of Takapuna, producing her first full-length novel, Owls Do Cry (Pegasus, 1957).[26]
Owls Do Cry. Dennis Beytagh's cover illustration for Frame's début novel, released by New Zealand's Pegasus Press in 1957.
Frame left New Zealand in late 1956. Over the next seven years, her most prolific in terms of publication, she lived and worked in Europe, primarily based in London, with brief sojourns in Ibiza and Andorra.[27][28] While abroad, Frame — still struggling with anxiety and depression — once again readmitted herself[29] to psychiatric hospital, this time the Maudsley in London, where American-trained psychiatrist Alan Miller, who, coincidentally, studied under MoneyatJohns Hopkins University, proposed that she had never suffered from schizophrenia.[30][31] In an effort to alleviate the ill effects of her years spent in and out of psychiatric hospital, Frame then began regular therapy sessions with the psychoanalyst Robert Hugh Cawley, who encouraged her to continue to pursue her writing, and to whom she would eventually dedicate seven of her novels.[32]
During this period, Frame also traveled a great deal, occasionally returning to Europe, but principally visiting the United States, where she accepted residencies at the MacDowell and Yaddo artists' colonies.[35] Partly as a result of these extended stays in the U.S., Frame developed close relationships with a number of Americans,[36] including the homosexual painter Theophilus Brown (whom she subsequently referred to as "the chief experience of my life"[37]) and his long-time partner Paul John Wonner, their friend, the homosexual poet May Sarton, as well as John Marquand, Jr. and Alan Lelchuck, among others. In addition, Frame's one-time university tutor/counselor and longtime friend John Money lived and worked in North America from 1947 onwards, and Frame frequently used his home in Baltimore as a base.[38]
In the 1980s Frame authored three volumes of autobiography (To the Is-land, An Angel at my Table and The Envoy from Mirror City) which collectively trace the course of her life leading up to her return to New Zealand in 1963.[10] Director Jane Campion and screenwriter Laura Jones adapted the trilogy, first intended for television broadcast, but eventually released as an award-winning feature film, An Angel at my Table, featuring a trio of actresses, (Kerry Fox, Alexia Keogh and Karen Fergusson) portraying the author at various ages. As a result of the autobiographies, which sold more than any of the author's previous publications,[39] and, even more so, Campion's successful film adaptation of the texts,[40] a new generation of readers encountered the author and her work, pushing Frame increasingly into the public eye.
The autobiographies gave Frame an opportunity, as she herself stated, to "set the record straight" regarding her past and in particular her mental status.[41][42] Still, critical and public speculation has frequently focused on the subject of Frame's mental health.[43] This trend continued in the years following Frame's death when, in 2007, The New Zealand Medical Journal published an article by a medical specialist who proposed that Frame may have registered on what is referred to as the autistic spectrum,[44] a suggestion that was disputed by the author's current literary executor.[45][46][47][48]
Over the years, Frame's work, principally released by American publisher George Braziller, garnered a number of literary awards, most notably the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the last novel published in her lifetime, The Carpathians. The final decades of Frame's life also saw an increase in the number of civic awards and honours bestowed upon the author. In 1983 Frame became a Commander of the Order of British Empire (CBE) for services to literature and was made a member of the Order of New Zealand, the country's highest civil honour, in 1990.[49] Frame also held foreign membership of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, received honorary doctorates from two New Zealand universities, and achieved recognition as a cultural icon in her native country.[50] Rumours occasionally circulated portraying Frame as a contender for the Nobel Prize in literature, most notably in 1998, after a journalist spotted her name at the top of a list later revealed to have been in alphabetical order,[51][52] and again five years later, in 2003, when Asa Bechman, the influential chief literary critic at the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter, wrongly predicted that Frame would win the prestigious prize.[53]
Starting in the late 1970s, Frame's writing became the focus of academic criticism, with approaches ranging from Marxist and social realist, to feminist and poststructuralist. In subsequent years, a number of book-length monographs on Frame have been published, including Patrick Evans’s bio-critical contribution for the "Twayne's World Authors Series," Janet Frame (1977), Gina Mercer's feminist reading of the novels and autobiographies, Janet Frame: Subversive Fictions (1994), and Judith Dell Panny's allegorical approach to the works, I have what I gave: The fiction of Janet Frame (1992). A collection of essays edited by Jeanne Delbaere was first published in 1978, with a revised edition released under the title The Ring of Fire: Essays on Janet Frame in 1992. That same year, Dunedin'sUniversity of Otago hosted a conference dedicated to a discussion of Frame's work, with many of the papers subsequently published in a special issue of The Journal of New Zealand Literature.
Wrestling with the Angel. The front cover of prominent New Zealand historian Michael King's award-winning biography on Frame, first published in 2000.
In 2000, the popular New Zealand historian Michael King published his authorised biography of Frame, Wrestling with the Angel, simultaneously released in New Zealand and North America, with British and Australian editions appearing in subsequent years.[10] King's award-winning and exhaustive work attracted both praise and criticism; some questioned the extent to which Frame guided the hand of her biographer,[54][55][56] while others argued that he had failed to come to terms with the complexity and subtlety of his subject.[57] Adding to the controversy, King openly admitted that he withheld information "that would have been a source of embarrassment and distress to her," adopting publisher Christine Cole Catley's notion of "compassionate truth," which advocates "a presentation of evidence and conclusions that fulfil [sic] the major objectives of biography, but without the revelation of information that would involve the living subject in unwarranted embarrassment, loss of face, emotional or physical pain, or a nervous or psychiatric collapse."[58][59] King thus defended his project and maintained that future biographies on Frame would eventually fill in the gaps left by his own work.[60]
Janet Frame died in Dunedin in January 2004, aged 79, from acute myeloid leukaemia, shortly after becoming one of the inaugural recipients of the New Zealand "Icon" award.[61][62] Since her death, a handful of posthumous works have been released, including a volume of poetry entitled The Goose Bath, which was awarded New Zealand's top poetry prize in 2007, generating controversy "among the nation's literarchy [sic]" who felt the posthumous prize "set an awkward precedent,"[63][64] in addition to a previously unpublished novella, Towards Another Summer, inspired by a weekend Frame spent with British journalist Geoffrey Moorhouse and his family.[65][66] In 2008, two of Frame's previously unpublished short stories set in mental hospitals appeared in The New Yorker.[67]Another of her previously unpublished short stories was carried in The New Yorker in 2010.[68]
Literary works
Novels
1957 Owls Do Cry. Christchurch: Pegasus Press.
1961 Faces in the Water. Christchurch: Pegasus Press; New York: Braziller.
1962 The Edge of the Alphabet. Christchurch: Pegasus Press.
1963 Scented Gardens for the Blind. London: WH Allen.
1965 The Adaptable Man. London: WH Allen.
1966 A State of Siege. New York: Braziller.
1968 The Rainbirds. London: WH Allen. (Published in the US with Frame's preferred original title, Yellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room. New York: Braziller, 1969)
1970 Intensive Care. New York: Braziller.
1972 Daughter Buffalo. New York: Braziller.
1979 Living in the Maniototo. New York: Braziller.
2007 Towards Another Summer. Auckland: Vintage ISBN 9781869418687 (Posthumously published).
Short stories
1951 The Lagoon and Other Stories. Christchurch: Caxton Press. (Mistakenly dated on first edition as 1952)
1963. The Reservoir: Stories and Sketches/Snowman Snowman: Fables and Fantasies. New York: Braziller (Edited selection published in the Commonwealth edition The Reservoir and Other Stories London: W.H. Allen, 1966).
1983. You Are Now Entering the Human Heart. Wellington: Victoria University Press.
Children's fiction
1969. Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun. (With illustrations by Robin Jacques.) New York: Braziller (Reissued posthumously in 2005 by Random House, New Zealand, with illustrations by David Elliot).
Poetry
1967. The Pocket Mirror. New York: Braziller.
2006. The Goose Bath. Auckland: Random House/Vintage (Posthumously published); (Released in the UK as a collected edition along with selections from The Pocket Mirror under the title Storms Will Tell: Selected Poems. Bloodaxe Books, 2008)
Autobiography
1982. To the Is-Land (Autobiography 1). New York: Braziller.
1984. An Angel at My Table (Autobiography 2). New York: Braziller.
1984. The Envoy From Mirror City (Autobiography 3). Auckland: Century Hutchinson.
1989. An Autobiography (Collected edition). Auckland: Century Hutchinson (Posthumously reprinted under the title An Angel at My Table, London: Virago, 2008).
Separately published stories and poems
1946. "University Entrance" in New Zealand Listener, 22 March 1946.
1947. "Alison Hendry" in Landfall 2, June 1947. (Published under the penname "Jan Godfrey"; reprinted in The Lagoon and Other Stories under the title "Jan Godfrey".)
1954. "The Waitress" in New Zealand Listener, 9 July 1954
1954. "The Liftman" in New Zealand Listener, 13 August 1954
1954. "On Paying the Third Installment" in New Zealand Listener, 10 September 1954
1954. "Lolly Legs" in New Zealand Listener, 15 October 1954
1954. "Trio Concert" in New Zealand Listener, 29 October 1954.
1954. "Timothy" in New Zealand Listener, 26 November 1954
1955. "The Transformation" in New Zealand Listener, 28 January 1955
1956. "The Ferry" in New Zealand Listener, 13 July 1956.
1956. "Waiting for Daylight" in Landfall (NZ) 10
1956. "I Got Shoes" in New Zealand Listener, 2 November 1956.
1957. "Face Downwards in the Grass" in Mate (NZ) 1
1957. "The Dead" in Landfall (NZ) 11
1957. "The Wind Brother" in School Journal (NZ) 51.1
1958. "The Friday Night World" in School Journal (NZ) 52.1
1962. "Prizes" in The New Yorker 10 March 1962
1962. "The Red-Currant Bush, the Black-Currant Bush, the Gooseberry Bush, the African Thorn Hedge, and the Garden Gate Who Was Once the Head of an Iron Bed" in Mademoiselle April 1962
1963. "The Reservoir" in The New Yorker 12 January 1963 (reprinted in The Reservoir: Stories and Sketches)
1963. "The Chosen Image" in Vogue, July 1963
1964. "The Joiner" in Landfall (NZ) 18
1957. "The Road to Takapuna" in Mate (NZ) 12
1964. "Scott's Horse" in Landfall (NZ) 18
1964. "The Senator Had Plans" in Landfall (NZ) 18
1965. "The Bath" in Landfall (NZ) 19 (Reprinted in You Are Now Entering the Human Heart)
1966. "A Boy's Will" in Landfall (NZ) 20
1966. "White Turnips: A Timely Monologue" in New Zealand Monthly Review May 1966
1966. "In Alco Hall" in Harper's Bazaar, November 1966
1968. "In Mexico City" in New Zealand Listener, 20 December 1968
1969. "You Are Now Entering the Human Heart" in The New Yorker 29 March 1969 (Reprinted in You Are Now Entering the Human Heart)
1969. "The Birds of the Air" in Harper's Bazaar, June 1969
1969. "Jet Flight" in New Zealand Listener, 8 August 1969
1969. "The Words" in Mademoiselle October 1969
1970. "Winter Garden" in The New Yorker 31 January 1970
1974. "They Never Looked Back" in New Zealand Listener, 23 March 1974
1975. "The Painter" in New Zealand Listener, 6 September 1975
1976. "Rain on the Roof" in The Journal (NZ), April 1976 (Previously published in The Pocket Mirror)
1979. "Insulation" in New Zealand Listener, 17 March 1979
1979. "Two Widowers" in New Zealand Listener, 9 June 1979
2004. "Three Poems by Janet Frame" in New Zealand Listener, 28 August-3 September 2004 (Posthumously published) view online
2008. "A Night at the Opera" in The New Yorker, 2 June 2008 (Posthumously published) view online
2008. "Gorse Is Not People" in The New Yorker, 1 September 2008 (Posthumously published) view online
Articles, reviews, essays and letters
1953. "A Letter to Frank Sargeson" in Landfall 25, March 1953
1954. "Review of Terence Journet's Take My Tip" in Landfall 32, December 1954
1955. "Review of A Fable by William Faulkner" in Parson's Packet, no. 36, October-December 1955
1964. "Memory and a Pocketful of Words" in Times Literary Supplement, 4 June 1964
1964. "This Desirable Property" in New Zealand Listener, 3 July 1964
1965. "Beginnings" in Landfall (NZ) 73, March 1965
1968. "The Burns Fellowship" in Landfall (NZ) 87, September 1968
1973. "Charles Brasch 1909-1973: Tributes and Memories from His Friends" in Islands (NZ) 5, Spring 1973
1975. "Janet Frame on Tales from Grimm" in Education (NZ) 24.9, 1975
1982. "Departures and Returns" in G. Amirthanayagan (ed.) Writers in East-West Encounter, London: Macmillan, 1982 (Originally delivered as a paper at the International Colloquium on the Cross-Cultural Encounter in Literature, East-West Center, Honolulu, October 1977).
1984. "A last Letter to Frank Sargeson" in Islands (NZ) 33, July 1984
Awards and honours
1951: Hubert Church Prose Award (The Lagoon and other Stories)
1956: New Zealand Literary Fund Grant
1958: New Zealand Literary Fund Award for Achievement (Owls Do Cry)
1964: Hubert Church Prose Award (Scented Gardens for the Blind); New Zealand Literary Fund Scholarship in Letters.
1965: Robert Burns Fellowship, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ
1967: "Buckland Literary Award." (The Reservoir and Other Stories/A State of Siege)
1969: New Zealand Literary Fund Award (The Pocket Mirror: Poems)
1971: Buckland Literary Award (Intensive Care); Hubert Church Prose Award." (Intensive Care)
1972: President of Honour: P.E.N. International New Zealand Centre, Wellington, NZ
1973: James Wattie Book of the Year Award (Daughter Buffallo)
1974: Hubert Church Prose Award (Daughter Buffallo); Winn-Manson Menton Fellowship.
1978: Honorary Doctor of Literature (D.Litt. Honoris Causa) University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ
1979: Buckland Literary Award (Living in the Maniototo)
1980: New Zealand Book Award for Fiction (Living in the Maniototo)
1983: Buckland Literary Award; Sir James Wattie Book of the Year Award (To the Is-Land); C.B.E. (Commander, Order of the British Empire)
1984: Frank Sargeson Fellowship, University of Auckland, NZ
1984: New Zealand Book Award for Non-Fiction (An Angel at My Table); Sir James Wattie Book of the Year Award (An Angel at My Table); Turnovsky Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts
1985: Sir James Wattie Book of the Year Award (The Envoy from Mirror City)
1986: New Zealand Book Award for Non-Fiction (The Envoy from Mirror City); Honorary Foreign Member: The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
1989: Ansett New Zealand Book Award for Fiction; Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (The Carpathians)
1990: O.N.Z. (Member, Order of New Zealand)
1992: Honorary Doctor of Literature (D.Litt), University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ
1994: Massey University Medal, Massey University, Palmerston North, NZ
2003: Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon Artists; New Zealand Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement
2007: Montana Book Award for Poetry (The Goose Bath)
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^Frame, Janet. "My Say." Interview with Elizabeth Alley. Concert Programme. Radio New Zealand, Wellington, NZ. 27 April 1983. Rpt In the Same Room: Conversations with New Zealand Writers. Ed. Elizabeth Alley and Mark Williams. Auckland: Auckland UP, 1992.
^Fox, Gary. "Sth African J M Coetzee awarded Nobel prize for Literature, dashing hopes of NZ writer Janet Frame." IRN News. 3 October 2003
^Ricketts, Harry. "A life within the frame." The Lancet [UK] November 10, 2001: 1652.
^Wilkins, Damien. "In the Lock-Up." Landfall 201 [NZ] May 2001: 25-36
^Evans, Patrick.『Dr. Clutha’s Book of the World: Janet Paterson Frame, 1924–2004.』Journal of New Zealand Literature 22: 15–3.
^Wikse, Maria. "Materialisations of a Woman Writer: Investigating Janet Frame's Biographical Legend" Bern (SW): Peter Lang, 2006.
^In addition to his work on Frame, King notes that he likewise withheld information in his previously published biography of Dame Whina Cooper. See: King, Michael.『Tread Softly – Biography and The Compassionate Truth,』in Tread Softly Cape Catley, 2001: 9-17
^Day, David. "Best file it in the biscuit tin" Sydney Morning Herald October 18, 2008: 37
^King, Michael. "The Compassionate Truth" Meanjin Quarterly 61.1 (2002) 34
^Herrick, Linda. "Belated recognition for 'icons' of arts." New Zealand Herald July 2, 2003
^Kitchin, Peter. "Daring to be different." The Dominion Post [NZ] July 9, 2003.
^"Good for the Gander" The Listener (NZ) 18 August 2007
^Moore, Christopher. "Dubious Decision" The Press (Christchurch, NZ), 1 August 2007
