Joan O'Hagan

Joan O'Hagan (1926 – 20 March 2014) was an Australian crime writer.

Early life and education O'Hagan was born in Melbourne and was raised in Canberra. She took classes in Classics (Latin and Greek), as well as ancient history, at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

O'Hagan later moved to New Caledonia. There she helped in translating into English French book John Grant's Journal: A Convict's Story 1803−11 on behalf of the South Pacific Commission, Noumea. She lived in London in the early fifties, and then moved to Rome with her husband, where she worked in the Australian Department of Immigration. Rome remained her home for the next thirty years, during which time she began writing fiction, initially as a mystery writer.

O'Hagan finished her final book, Jerome & His Women, just days before her death, writing its preface on her death bed.

Books Incline and Fall: The Death of Geoffrey Stretton (Angus & Robertson 1976) Death and a Madonna (Macmillan 1986)