Rachel Barrowman

Rachel Barrowman (born 1963) is a New Zealand author and historian, with a focus on New Zealand cultural and intellectual history. In 2006, Barrowman received the Michael King Writer's Fellowship from Creative New Zealand to write a biography of Maurice Gee; she subsequently held a summer residency at the Michael King Writers Centre in 2010. The book, Maurice Gee: Life and Work, was a finalist for the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Barrowman has also received the National Library Fellowship and the Stout Research Centre Fellowship.

Published books A Popular Vision: the Arts and the Left in New Zealand, 1930–1950 (1991, Victoria University Press) The Turnbull: a Library and Its World (1995, Auckland University Press) Victoria University of Wellington, 1899–1999: A History (1999, Victoria University Press) Mason: The Life of R.A.K. Mason (2003, Victoria University Press) Maurice Gee: Life and Work (2015, Victoria University Press) Barrowman is also an editor of the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.