About Lynley Hood
Born 1942. Lynley Hood is a New Zealand writer and biographer.
Lynley Hood (born 1942) is an author from New Zealand.
Biography Hood was born in 1942 in Hamilton, New Zealand. She has an MSc in Physiology, and LittD from University of Otago. She currently lives in Dunedin.
Hood worked in medical research until 1979, after which she worked as a freelance writer. It also won the 1989 PEN Best First Book of Prose Award and 1990 Talking Book of the Year.
Hood received the 1991 Robert Burns Fellowship.
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