Christina Stead

Christina Ellen Stead was born in 1902 in Rockdale, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. Her mother died when she was an infant, and she was raised by her father, a naturalist and marine biologist whose larger-than-life personality and domineering love provided the raw material for Sam Pollit. She left Australia in 1928, lived in London, Paris, and New York, and spent most of her adult life in Europe and America with her partner, the Marxist writer and banker William Blake. Her early novels, including Seven Poor Men of Sydney and The Beauties and Furies, established her as a writer of fierce intelligence and uncompromising vision. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Man Who Loved Children.