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French Censorship: Copyright laws, "Private Life," and Biography

The American Scholar, Winter 2009

The challenges of publishing a biography in modern-day France.

It Takes a Village

BookForum, Feb./Mar. 2008

On the Village Voice bookshop in Paris.

The Mocking Country

The Australian, August 25, 2007

Australia and its Tall Poppy Syndrome.

Beauvoir, Brazil, and "Christina T"

BookForum, April/May 2007; Best Australian Essays 2006.

Rowley in Brazil, on the trail of Sartre and Beauvoir.

A Sort of Homecoming

The Nation, September 11, 2006.

The Exile Years? How the '50s cultural Wars Destroyed Richard Wright

BookForum, December/January 2006.

Mockingbird Country

Best Australian Essays 1999

On Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Universities are losing on points

The Australian, December 1996

Why Rowley left her tenured position at an Australian university.

Articles Not Online

The following is a listing of published articles by Hazel Rowley that are not currently available online.

• "The Ups, the Downs: My Life as a Biographer," Best Australian Essays 2007.
• "Sartre and Beauvoir: An Intellectual Passion," Journal of Romance Studies, vol. 6, nos. 1 & 2, spring-summer 2006.
• "Preface to Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter," New York, HarperCollins, 2005.
• "Christina Stead," Best Australian Essays 2002.
• "Richard Wright's Africa," Antioch Review, Fall 2000.
• "The Shadow of the White Woman; Richard Wright and the Book-of-the-Month Club," Partisan Review, Fall 1999.
• "Backstage and Onstage: The Drama of Native Son," Mississippi Quarterly, summer 1999.
• "Off With Their Heads: Black Intellectuals in the United States," The Australian's Review of Books, September 9, 1998.
• "Framing Richard Wright," Yale University Library Gazette, April 1998.
• "Poetic Justice: Elizabeth Hardwick's Sleepless Nights," Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 39, no. 4, winter 1997.
• "That Black Limousine on the Mekong: Marguerite Duras' Chinese Puzzle," a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, vol. 12, no. 1, spring 1997.
• "Christina Stead: Un-Australian?" Southerly, vol. 53, no. 4, December 1993 .
• "Simone de Beauvoir: The Choix Originel," Prose Studies, vol. 15, no. 3, December 1992.
• "How have biographies been written and how can they be?" Australian Feminist Studies, no. 16, summer 1992.
• "How Real is Sam Pollit? 'Dramatic Truth' and 'Procès-verbal' in The Man Who Loved Children," Contemporary Literature, winter 1990, vol. 31, no. 4, November 1990.
• "Christina Stead: Politics and Literature in the Radical Years, 1935-1942," Meridian (Melbourne) vol. 8, no. 2, October 1989.
• "Christina Stead: The Voyage to Cythera." Span (Sydney), April 1988.
• "The Beautiful and The Damned: George Johnston and Auto/Biographical Fictions," Island Magazine (Tasmania), no.34/35, autumn 1988.
• "A Wanderer: Christina Stead," Westerly (Western Australia) vol. 33, no.1. 1988.
• "Becoming a Man: Mateship and Horsemanship in Randolph Stow's The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea," Southerly (Sydney), 4, December 1987.