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Madeleine St John (12 November 194118 June 2006) was an Australian writer, the first Australian woman to be shortlisted〔Beresford, Bruce (2009) "In memory of a friendship", ''The Canberra Times'', 28 March 2009, Panorama, p. 9〕 for the Booker Prize for Fiction (in 1997 for her novel ''The Essence of the Thing''). ==Biography== St John was born in 1941 in Castlecrag, a suburb of Sydney, and schooled at Queenwood School for Girls, Mosman. She was born to Edward St John, the son of a Church of England clergyman.〔 Her French mother, Sylvette (Cargher), committed suicide〔 when St John was 12. Her maternal grandparents were Romanian Jews.〔("St John, Madeleine (1941–2006)" ), obituary by Christopher Potter, ''The Independent'', 6 July 2006〕 She went the University of Sydney to study arts where she was a contemporary of Bruce Beresford, John Bell, Clive James, Germaine Greer, Arthur Dignam, Robert Hughes〔 and Richard Walsh whom her father defended in the first ''Oz'' obscenity trial in 1964. She married Christopher Tillam, a filmmaker, with whom she moved to San Francisco to live while he studied film.〔 The marriage ended after St John went to live in England during 1968, where she continued to live. She took a series of jobs in bookshops and offices. Eventually she stuck with a part-time job for two days a week at an antique shop in Kensington. During the following eight years she attempted to write a biography of Helena Blavatsky but was dissatisfied and destroyed the manuscript. In the early 1990s she decided to write novels. Her first, ''The Women in Black'' was published in 1993. Not used to the success her writing brought, she remained a very private person, almost reclusive in style if not in actuality. She died aged 64 at St Mary's Hospital, London, of emphysema and was cremated at Kensal Green Cemetery.〔("Madeleine St John's life in pieces" ) by Helen Trinca, ''The Australian'', 16 March 2013〕 A biography ''Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John'', written by Helen Trinca, was published by Text Publishing in 2013. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Madeleine St John」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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