Pamela Freeman

Pamela Freeman is an Australian author of books for both adults and children. Most of her work is fantasy but she has also written mystery stories, science fiction, family dramas and nonfiction. Her first adult series, the Castings Trilogy is published globally by Orbit books. She is best known in Australia for the junior novel Victors Quest and an associated series, the Floramonde books, and for The Black Dress Mary MacKillops Early Years, which won the NSW Premiers History Prize in 2006.

Freeman was born in Sydney, Australia and grew up near Parramatta. She attended the University of Technology, Sydney from 19781980 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications, majoring in film and television and psychology. After working in public relations in the petroleum exploration and engineering fields, she left Australia for London and spent some time there working in a variety of jobs, including a stint as a clerk for the scenery construction department of the BBC. She returned to Australia in 1984 and worked as a scriptwriter for the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, moving from there to ABC TVs Childrens and Education Department in 1987. She was researcher and scriptwriter on a number of the departments programs and first wrote prose stories for children for the series Watch! Your Language. Her first childrens stories were published in the NSW School Magazine and one of these became the last chapter of her first book, The Willow Trees Daughter.

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