19 Facts About Elizabeth Knox

Elizabeth Fiona Knox was born on 15 February 1959 and is a New Zealand writer.

Elizabeth Knox has authored several novels for both adults and teenagers, autobiographical novellas, and a collection of essays.

Elizabeth Knox went to high school at Tawa College, and later published a trilogy of novellas that were influenced by her childhood experiences of living in and around Wellington.

Elizabeth Knox enjoyed inventing stories as a child, and was an avid reader, but had difficulties with writing because she was slightly dyslexic.

In 1983, when Elizabeth Knox was 24, she started a degree in English Literature at Victoria University of Wellington.

The novel is about the ghost of a World War I soldier, and it was inspired by a childhood memory; at age eleven Elizabeth Knox fell from a walnut tree on Anzac Day, and while in the hospital she overheard a conversation between an older man and her father about Passchendaele and life on the Salient in 1917.

Elizabeth Knox was awarded the ICI Young Writers Bursary award that year.

Elizabeth Knox was one of its editors and has been a frequent contributor to the magazine.

Elizabeth Knox's second and third novels, Treasure and Glamour and the Sea, were both set in Wellington; the former was about a religious community while the latter was a mystery novel set in the 1940s.

Alongside these novels, Elizabeth Knox wrote a trilogy of novellas based on her own experiences growing up in Wellington: Paremata, Pomare, and Tawa, later published in the compilation The High Jump: A New Zealand Childhood.

Elizabeth Knox was the recipient of the Victoria University of Wellington Writing Fellowship in 1997.

In 2002, Elizabeth Knox was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2002 Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee Honours, for services to literature.

Elizabeth Knox was disappointed at the direction the movie took as she felt Caro "took out what the book was actually about", referring to the romantic relationship between Sobran and Xas which was a core aspect of the novel.

That same year, Elizabeth Knox published The Angel's Cut, a sequel to The Vintner's Luck.

Since 2016, Elizabeth Knox has taught a world-building writing workshop at Victoria University.

Elizabeth Knox praised the diverse characters and the book's "genuine feeling of jeopardy".

In June 2020, Elizabeth Knox was promoted to Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to literature, in the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours.

Elizabeth Knox said that on receiving the award her first thought was that her parents would have been amused, given her lack of writing ability as a child.

Barrowman and Elizabeth Knox met when he was involved in publishing her first book, After Z-Hour.