Janet McCallum

Janet Mary Candon McCallum (1947–2015) was a New Zealand non-fiction writer and journalist, best known for her books and articles about New Zealand women.

Life and career McCallum was born in 1947 in Kolkata (then Calcutta) to British parents. Her family moved to New Zealand in 1948, where she grew up on a farm in the Wairarapa region and went to a Catholic boarding school in Wellington. She graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with a bachelor's degree followed by a master's degree in French and Russian. She and her husband had three children. This research work led to her second book, Women and their Words: Notable Pioneers in New Zealand Journalism, which was published in 2009. An Otago Daily Times review said McCallum had "delved deeply to deliver up the experiences of a great many would-be women journalists in New Zealand from the 1860s till the late 1940s", and concluded that the book would be "an inspiration to all present-day women reporters". A review in Northern Advocate concluded "McCallum did exhaustive research for this book, and the reader is rewarded for it".

McCallum died in 2015.

Selected works Women in the House (Cape Catley, 1993) Women and their Words: Notable Pioneers in New Zealand Journalism (Fraser Books, 2009)