Joyce Dingwell

Enid Joyce Owen Starr Dingwell
Born Enid Joyce Owen Starr
1908
City of Ryde, Sydney, Australia
Died 2 August 1997 (aged 88–89)
Kincumber, Sydney, Australia
Pen name Joyce Dingwell,
Kate Starr
Occupation novelist
Language English
Nationality Australian
Period 1931–1986
Genre Romance

Joyce Dingwell, née Enid Joyce Owen Starr (1908 in City of Ryde, Sydney, Australia – 2 August 1997 in Kincumber, Sydney), an Australian writer of more than 80 romance novels at Mills & Boon from 1931 to 1986, who also wrote under the pseudonym of Kate Starr. Her novel The House in the Timberwood (1959), had been made into a motion picture: The Winds of Jarrah (1983).[1]

Biography

She was born Enid Joyce Owen Starr on 1908 in City of Ryde, New South Wales, Australia.[2] She was the first Australian writer, who lives in Australia, published at Mills & Boon.

“ My romance writing began with an avid romance-reading mother who devoured so many romances each week that I decide to save library trips by supplementing the supply myself. ”
— Joyce Dingwell[3]

Bibliography

As Joyce Dingwell

Single novels

Omnibus

Collections in collaboration

As Kate Starr

Single novels

References and sources

  1. ↑ Joyce Dingwell at IMBd, retrieved 30 November 2011
  2. ↑ Thorpe Pty, D.W. (1995), Who's Who of Australian Writers, National Centre for Australian Studies, p. 822
  3. ↑ Henderson, Lesley; Kirkpatrick, D. L. (1990), Twentieth-century romance and historical writers, St. James Press, p. 856
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