Helen Beaglehole

Helen Elizabeth Beaglehole (; born 27 November 1946) is a New Zealand writer, editor and historian. She is known for her children's books including Two Tigers and War Zones (2005), and her historical books about New Zealand's lighthouses and rural fire-fighting.

Biography Beaglehole was born in Hamilton on 27 November 1946. She attended Victoria University of Wellington, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1968. She subsequently obtained a teaching diploma in 1978 from Wellington Teachers' College and worked as a teacher until 1980. She became a freelance editor and writer after leaving government. Her young-adult novel War Zones (2005) was shortlisted for the Esther Glen Award in 2006. In 2004 she received an Award in Oral History from the Department of Internal Affairs about her work interviewing lighthouse keepers. In 2009, she published a sequel to the work, Always the Sound of the Sea: The Daily Lives of New Zealand's Lighthouse Keepers.

Beaglehole's third historical book, Fire in the Hills: A History of Rural Firefighting in New Zealand (2012), was described by the Otago Daily Times as "an impressively wide-ranging, scholarly history".

Personal life Beaglehole has a twin sister called Anne. who died in July 2015.

Selected works Children's books

Young-adult fiction

Non-fiction