Born

21 May 1917
Northam, Western Australia, Australia

Occupation

Novelist and Servicewoman

Summary

After serving with the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAAF) during the Second World War, Elizabeth Backhouse worked as a scriptwriter with Korda Films in England. Backhouse returned to Australia in 1951. She is a writer of novels, children's stories, plays, filmscripts, a ballet and a musical.

Sources used to compile this entry: AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource, 2002, http://www.austlit.edu.au/; AustLit entry - 2002, http://www.austlit.edu.au, accessed 2003-10-07.