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Rosina Ruth Lucia Park AM (24 August 191714 December 2010)〔(The Australian, 18 December 2010 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= Austlit Agent Details )〕〔She always refused to confirm the actual date, and the published information varies from 1917 to 1924 (Source: (Pegasus Book Orphanage ))〕 was a New Zealand–born Australian author. Her best known works are the novels ''The Harp in the South'' (1948) and ''Playing Beatie Bow'' (1980), and the children's radio serial ''The Muddle-Headed Wombat'' (1951–1970), which also spawned a book series (1962–1982). ==Personal history== Park was born in Auckland to a Scottish father and a Swedish mother. Her family later moved to the town of Te Kuiti further south in the North Island of New Zealand, living in isolated areas.〔 During the Great Depression her working-class father did various jobs: he laboured on bush roads and bridges, worked as a driver, did government relief work and became a sawmill hand. Finally, he shifted back to Auckland, where he joined the workforce of a municipal council. The family occupied public housing, known in New Zealand as a state house, and money remained a scarce commodity. After attending a Catholic primary school, Park won a partial scholarship to secondary school, but her high-school education was broken by periods of being unable to afford to attend.〔 She also completed an external degree course at Auckland University.〔Ruth Park: "Becoming a Writer" (Retrieved 5 November 2015 )〕 Park's first break as a professional writer came when she was hired by the Auckland Star newspaper as a journalist, but she found the assignments she was given unchallenging. Wishing to expand her horizons, she accepted a job offer from the San Francisco Examiner, but the tightening of United States' entry requirements after the bombing of Pearl Harbour forced a change of plan. Instead, she moved to Sydney, Australia, in 1942, where she had lined up a job with another newspaper. That same year she married the budding Australian author D'Arcy Niland (1917–1967), whom she had met on a previous visit to Sydney, and embarked on a career as a freelance writer. Park and Niland had five children. The youngest, twin daughters Kilmeny and Deborah, went on to became book illustrators.〔 (Park was devastated when Niland died in Sydney at the age of 49 from a heart ailment; Kilmeny also predeceased her — see ''Herald'' obituary.) Park had eleven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. 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「Ruth Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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