My sincerest thanks to former publishing manager Lorain Day and to managing director Tony Fisk, for their vision in taking this project on, and to Vicki Marsdon, Sandra Noakes, Louise Vallant, Eva Chan and all the staff at HarperCollins who worked on this book. I am especially grateful to editors Kate Stone and Anna Rogers. Thank you for your sure and steady support, and for your criticism, encouragement and inspiration. Thank you also to Teresa McIntyre and Liz Stone for their careful proofread. Thanks to Vincent Reynolds for his classic design. At HarperCollins in Hammersmith, London, I would like to thank David Brawn for arranging an amazing lunch with Susan Opie and for his steadfast encouragement.
Some special friends and family members have helped the project along the way. I offer my heartfelt thanks especially to Jennifer Marshall and David Beves (for letting us stay in their flat in London), Bradley Fafejta (for his photography skills), Linda Tyler, Andrew and Shirley Whillans, Mike Small, Judy Barton, Paul Drayton, Chrissie Thomas and Guy Drayton; and for the love and patient support of our children, Jeremy Thomson, and Katherine and Jason and Megan Lovelock.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joanne Drayton is Associate Professor in the Department of Design at UNITEC, Auckland, where she lectures in art history and theory. Her critically acclaimed Ngaio Marsh: Her Life in Crime (2008) was a Christmas pick of the Independent when it was released in the United Kingdom in 2009. Her other biographies include Edith Collier: Her Life and Work, 1885–1964 (1999); Rhona Haszard: An Experimental Expatriate New Zealand Artist (2002); and Frances Hodgkins: A Private Viewing (2005). She has curated exhibitions of Collier, Haszard, Hodgkins, and DK Richmond, and publishes in biography and art, and design history and theory. She was awarded a National Library Fellowship in 2007 to write her biography of Marsh, and lives in Auckland with her partner and two cats. She is currently carving a post-colonial chess set in response to the Lewis pieces in the British Museum, and her interests include long-distance running, art, music and reading.
COPYRIGHT
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First published 2012
This edition published in 2012
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National Library of New Zealand Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Drayton, Joanne.
The search for Anne Perry / Joanne Drayton.
1. Perry, Anne. 2. Perry, Anne—Criticism and interpretation. 3. Authors, English—20th century—Biography.
823.914—dc 23 [B]
ISBN: 978 1 86950 888 3 (pbk)
ISBN: 978 1 77549 027 2 (epub)
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Cover images: top — Anne Perry’s collection; bottom — New Zealand Herald; background image — shutterstock.com
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