About Gloria Bevan
Lived 1911 – 1998 (aged 86–87). Gloria Bevan was a New Zealand writer and novelist.
Gloria Isabel Bevan (20 July 1911 - 1998. ) was an Australian-born New Zealand writer of romantic fiction.
Early life
Bevan was born on 20 July 1911 in Kalgoorlie, Australia, where her father was a mining engineer. When she was three years old, the family moved to New Zealand, and lived in Auckland from 1926 to 1936.
Career After finishing her high school studies, Bevan worked as a typist while writing stories in her spare time. Her first published works were detective novels, written under the pseudonym Fiona Murray, in 1965. She later met fellow New Zealand romance writer Essie Summers, who introduced her to Allan Boon of Mills & Boon publishers.
Personal life Bevan married in 1937 and had three daughters.
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Gloria Bevan was born on 20 July 1911 in Kalgoorlie.
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Gloria Bevan died in 1998.
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Gloria Bevan was a writer and novelist.
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Gloria Bevan was New Zealand.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Gloria Bevan. https://biography.guide/gloria-bevan/
MLA: "Gloria Bevan." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/gloria-bevan/.
Chicago: "Gloria Bevan." Biography.guide. https://biography.guide/gloria-bevan/.
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