Joy Cowley
Joy Cowley was born in Levin, Manawatu-Wanganui Region, New Zealand on August 7th, 1936 and is the Children's Author. At the age of 87, Joy Cowley biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Cassia Joy Cowley (née Summers, 1936) is a New Zealand author best known for her children's fiction, including the famous collection of books Mrs. Wishy-Washy, and Roald Dahl's "Nest in a Falling Tree (1967) was adapted for the screen.
It was the 1971 film The Night Digger.
Cowley's book The Growing Season (1979), 1978), After its success in the United States, she wrote several others, including Man of Straw (1972), Of Men and Angels (1972), The Mandrake Root (1972), and The Growing Season (1979).
These works were characterized by marital infidelity, mental illness, and death, as experienced within families.
In addition, Cowley has released two collections of short stories, including Two of a Kind (1984) and Heart Attack and Other Stories (1985).
She is best known for children's books, such as The Silent One (1981), which was made into a 1985 film.
Bow Down Shadrach (1991) and its sequel, Gladly, Here I Come (1994), among others. She has written forty-one picture books, including The Duck in the Gun (1969), Salmagundi (1985), and The Cheese Trap (1995).
The Duck in the Gun and Salmagundi books are specifically anti-war books.
She has been heavily involved in early reading skills and assisting those with reading difficulties, and has worked with those with reading difficulties, and has published around 500 basal readers (termed reading books in New Zealand).
Personal life
Cowley has married three times, first to dairy farmer Ted Cowley, with whom she had four children: Sharon, Edward, Judith, and James. Cowley married Malcolm Mason, a Wellington writer and accountant who died in 1985, after his marriage ended in 1967.
Terry Coles, a 1989 Cowley fiancee, married Terry Coles. She lived with him and a variety of animals in the Marlborough Sounds for many years, but they moved to a wharf apartment in Wellington in 2004 to ensure Coles could be nearer medical services. Wellington's stairs and traffic became too much for him, and the couple moved to Featherston, where Cowley now lives. She has 13 grandchildren and still writes full time.