Jean Bedford was born on 4 February 1946 and is an English-born Australian writer who is best known for her crime fiction, but who has written novels and short stories, as well as nonfiction.
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Jean Bedford is an editor and journalist, and has taught creative writing in several universities for over 20 years.
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Jean Bedford grew up in country Victoria on the Mornington Peninsula.
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Jean Bedford undertook her Bachelor of Arts degree at Monash University and then studied Teaching English as a Second Language at the University of Papua New Guinea where she had gone with her first husband, Klim Gollan.
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Jean Bedford later met writer Peter Corris, with whom she had two more daughters, Miriam and Ruth.
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Jean Bedford includes Australian writers Gabrielle Lord and Helen Garner among her friends.
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Jean Bedford says that she first started to think of writing seriously when she worked at the Canberra College of Advanced Education.
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Jean Bedford says she was inspired to write it after reading the American novel Desperadoes which she felt dealt with national myth in a way that Australian writers didn't.
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Jean Bedford has published ten books of fiction, including three detective novels and a thriller.
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Jean Bedford has edited several collections of fiction and non-fiction.
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Jean Bedford was part of a new wave of contemporary women writers in the 1980s who, with the support of both independent and mainstream publishing houses like McPhee Gribble and Penguin Books, "experimented with narrative form to find ways to tell women's stories".