Katharine Susannah Prichard
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883–1969) was a journalist, short story writer, playwright, pamphleteer, writer of children’s books, and a novelist. Her best known novels include The Pioneers (1915) which won the Hodder and Stoughton All Empire Literature Prize for Australasia, Working Bullocks (1926), also in the Untapped Collection, Coonardoo (1928) which won The Bulletin Novel Competition that year, Haxby’s Circus (1930), Intimate Strangers (1937) and the Goldfields trilogy, which began with The Roaring Nineties (1946).