Cato, Nancy (1917–2000)
Cato, Nancy (1917–2000)
Australian novelist, poet and journalist. Born Mar 11, 1917, in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia; died July 3, 2000, in Noosa, Queensland, Australia; m. Eldred Norman, 1941; children: 3.
Active in Australian literary circles, was a founding member of Lyrebird Writers; best known for her trilogy: All the Rivers Run (1958), Time, Flow Softly: A Novel of the River Murray (1959) and Green Grows the Vine (1960), issued in 1 vol. as All the Rivers Run (1978); other works, which capture the spirit of the Australian outback and often feature strong female characters, include The Darkened Window: Poems (1950), But Still the Stream: A Novel of the Murray River (1962), Brown Sugar (1974), Nin and the Scribblies (1976), The Noosa Story: A Study in Unplanned Development (1979), The Lady Lost in Time (1986) and Marigold (1992). Received Alice Award (1988); made Member of Order of Australia.