| 词条 | Helen Brown (author) |
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| honorific_suffix = | image = | birth_name = Helen Blackman | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1954}} | birth_place = New Plymouth, New Zealand | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Writer | language = English | nationality = New Zealand | education = {{Plainlist |
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| partner = | children = 4 | website = {{URL|https://www.helenbrown.com.au/}} | portaldisp = }} Helen Brown (born 1954) is a New Zealand-born author and columnist, best known for her memoirs about cats and the meaning of life. Her book Cleo was a New York Times Best Seller and a film adaptation is in development by John Barnett (producer of Whale Rider) through his company Endeavour Ventures Ltd. Personal lifeBrown was born Helen Blackman in 1954 in New Plymouth. She studied journalism at Wellington Polytechnic. At age 18 she flew to England to marry her first husband, Steve, whom she had met three years prior. They returned to New Zealand and had two sons, Sam and Rob. Sam was hit by a car and killed on 21 January 1983, aged 9. Soon after, her family adopted a kitten, about which she wrote her best-selling book Cleo.[1] The book is about a small black cat who helped mend a family's broken hearts. Cleo lived to be 23 years old. Brown had one more child, Lydia, with her first husband before they divorced.[2][3] Brown married her second husband, Philip Gentry, in 1991. Together they had one daughter, Katharine. They moved to Melbourne in 1997 and have lived there since. Brown underwent a mastectomy after being diagnosed with breast cancer. During recovery, her sister suggested she get another cat. She adopted a Siamese cat and named him Jonah, after Jonah Lomu the famous rugby player. Jonah became the subject of her next book, After Cleo.[4][5][6][7] Awards
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References1. ^{{cite web|title=Helen Brown|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/613291.Helen_Brown|website=www.goodreads.com|accessdate=20 May 2018}} 2. ^{{cite web |url=http://pukeariki.com/Learning-Research/Taranaki-Research-Centre/Taranaki-Stories/Taranaki-Story/id/101/title/helen-brown-comes-back |title=Taranaki Story - Helen Brown Comes Back |last=Bartle |first=Rhonda |publisher=Puke Ariki |date=12 May 2005}} 3. ^1 {{cite web |url=https://www.helenbrown.com.au/about-me/ |title=About Helen |last=Brown |first=Helen}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10807518|title=Hello kitty: The cat that saved Kiwi author Helen Brown|date=22 May 2012|work=The New Zealand Herald}} 5. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.allenandunwin.co.nz/authors/b/helen-brown |title=Helen Brown |publisher=Allen & Unwin}} 6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-1248468/Helen-Brown-Cleo-clever-kitten-healed-familys-heartache.html |title=The clever kitten who healed our family's heartache |work=MailOnline |date=7 February 2010}} 7. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.writerscentre.com.au/blog/helen-brown-columnist-and-author/ |title=Helen Brown: Columnist and author |publisher=Australian Writers' Centre |date=15 November 2011}} External links
7 : 1954 births|Living people|New Zealand women novelists|New Zealand columnists|People from New Plymouth|Breast cancer survivors|Women columnists |
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