Road From Coorain

Jill Ker Conway was born in Hillston, New South Wales, graduated from the University of Sydney in 1958, and received her PhD from Havard University in 1969. From 1964 to 1975 she taught at the University of Toronto and was Vice President there before serving in 1975 and fro the next ten years as President of Smith College. Since 1985 she has been Visiting Scholar and Professor in MIT's Programme in Science, Technology and Society, and now lives with her husband in Milton, Massachusetts.

"A small masterpiece of scene, memory and very stylish English. I've been several times to Australia; this book was the most rewarding of all" -- John Kenneth Galbraith "The Road from Coorain is the work of a writer who relentlessly tugs at the cultural fences around her until they collapse, leaving her solitary under an immense Australian sky, enlarged to herself at least" New York Times Book Review "This book, an extraordinarily gripping and inspiring work, will take place as one of the few heroic stories of girlhood" Carolyn Heilbrun "Immensely readable, elegant and well-crafted" Sydney Morning Herald