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Biography: Mahy, Margaret May

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Bibliography

Duder, Tessa. Margaret Mahy: a writer’s life: a literary portrait of New Zealand’s best-loved children’s author. Auckland, 2005.

Hales, Elizabeth and Sarah Fiona Winters (ed.). Marvellous codes: the fiction of Margaret Mahy. Wellington, 2005.

Kedgley, Sue (ed.). Our own country: leading New Zealand writers talk about their writing and their lives. Auckland, 1989.

Mackay, Yvonne (director). A tall long faced tale. 70-min documentary, Margaret Mahy interviewed by Elizabeth Knox, Production Shed TV, 2008.

Mahy, Margaret. Surprising moments: the inaugural Margaret Mahy award lecture. Auckland, 1991.

Mahy, Margaret. A dissolving ghost, essays and more. Wellington, 2000.  

Mahy, Margaret. Notes of a bag lady. Wellington, 2003.

Mahy, Margaret. Tragedy’s wild twin: the mixed nature of humour. Auckland, 2003.

How to cite this page

Tessa Duder. 'Mahy, Margaret May', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2018. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/230686/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).