Susan Duncan
Susan Duncan | |
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| File:Susan Duncan (6171233228).jpg Duncan in 2011 | |
| Born | 1951 Albury, New South Wales |
| Died | 30 November 2024 (aged 72–73) |
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Susan Elizabeth Duncan (1951 – 30 November 2024) was an Australian author, journalist and editor of The Australian Women's Weekly and New Idea.[1]
Life and career
[edit | edit source]After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 1999, Duncan had a mastectomy and chemotherapy. A cancer survivor, she was an active supporter of breast cancer awareness.[2][3]
Duncan was married twice. Her first husband died from a brain tumour. Duncan lived in New South Wales with her second husband, Bob. They had homes at Pittwater and the mid-north coast of New South Wales. The Pittwater home, on Lovett Bay, is called Tarrangaua and was built for poet Dorothea Mackellar in 1925.[1]
Duncan died on 30 November 2024, shortly before publication of her latest novel, Finding Joy in Oyster Bay.[4]
Bibliography
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References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Audio interview with Susan Duncan on ABC radio 2008
- Audio interview with Susan Duncan on ABC Radio National 2016
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- 1951 births
- 2024 deaths
- Australian autobiographers
- Australian magazine editors
- Australian women magazine editors
- Writers from New South Wales
- Australian women autobiographers
- People from Albury
- 21st-century Australian women writers
- 21st-century Australian writers
- 20th-century Australian women writers
- 20th-century Australian writers
- Australian writer stubs