Jacqueline Kent

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Jacqueline Kent
BornJacqueline Frances Kent
1947 (age 77–78)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupationbiographer, non-fiction writer
NationalityAustralian
EducationDoctorate of Creative Arts
Alma materUniversity of Technology Sydney
Notable worksA Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a Literary Life
An Exacting Heart: The Story of Hephzibah Menuhin
Notable awards
Spouse Kenneth Cook

Jacqueline Frances Kent (born 1947) is an Australian journalist, biographer and non-fiction writer. She is also known as Jacquie Kent, the name she used when writing young adult fiction in the 1990s and sometimes writes as Frances Cook. [1] [2]

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Career

Kent was born in Sydney in 1947 and later moved to Adelaide, returning to Sydney to a position with the Australian Broadcasting Commission following graduation with an Arts degree. [3]

Kent wrote her first book, Out of the Bakelite Box: The Heyday of Australian Radio, while working as a freelance editor. Published in 1983 by Angus & Robertson, it was described by Maurice Dunlevy in The Canberra Times : "This popular social history of Australian radio after World War II is a classic piece of book journalism" and "a buzz from beginning to end". [4] In 1985 she curated an exhibition called "On Air" for the National Film and Sound Archive. [5]

She was appointed to the judging panel for the National Short Story of the Year competition for 1984 [6] and 1985. [7]

In 1985 she met Kenneth Cook, subject of her 2019 memoir, Beyond Words, and author of Wake in Fright . They married and were together until his sudden death in April 1987. [8] [9]

Kent is a frequent contributor to and book reviewer for Australian publications, including Australian Book Review , Meanjin , The Weekend Australian , The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age . [1] She has contributed five biographies to the Australian Dictionary of Biography. [10]

In 2007 Kent was awarded a Doctorate of Creative Arts from the University of Technology Sydney for her thesis, "Artistry Under Oath: Biography and the life story of Hephzibah Menuhin". [11] The following year it was published by Viking as An Exacting Heart. [12]

Awards and recognition

Book awards

Fellowships

Works

Biography and memoir

Non-fiction

Young adult fiction

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  2. ↑ "Kent, Jacqueline (1947-) - People and organisations". Trove. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  3. ↑ "Jacqueline Kent — Beyond Words: A Year with Kenneth Cook". Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts (SMSA). Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  4. ↑ "Writers' World". Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995). 1 October 1983. p. 12. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  5. ↑ "The bakelite box revisited". Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995). 12 August 1985. p. 30. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  6. ↑ "New short-story judge". Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995). 2 September 1983. p. 3. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  7. ↑ "$3,900 to be won in short-story competition". Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995). 11 May 1985. p. 1. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  8. ↑ Kent, Jacqueline (2019), Beyond words : a year with kenneth cook, UQP, ISBN   978-0-7022-6039-1
  9. ↑ Kembrey, Melanie (21 January 2019). "Lunch with: Biographer turned memoirist Jacqueline Kent". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  10. ↑ "Browse by author: Kent, Jacqueline - Australian Dictionary of Biography". adb.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  11. ↑ Kent, J. (2007). Artistry under oath : biography and the life story of Hephzibah Menuhin (Doctorate of Creative Arts thesis).
  12. ↑ Kent, Jacqueline (2008). An exacting heart : the story of Hephzibah Menuhin. Camberwell, Vic. : Viking. ISBN   978-0-670-07117-3.
  13. ↑ "National Biography Award". ANU School of History. 1 May 2009. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
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