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Autobiography of a family

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Autobiography of a family

Between 1989 and 1992 Lauris Edmond published three autobiographical volumes – Hot October, Bonfires in the rainand The quick world – that traced the gradual breakdown of her marriage alongside her emergence as a poet. In 1992 her son Martin Edmond, also a writer, published The autobiography of my father, an unconventional, elegiac work that gave an alternative perspective on the family's past.

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Alex Calder, Non-fiction – Questioning orthodoxies, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/43311/autobiography-of-a-family (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Alex Calder, i tāngia i te 11 November 2013.