KSP’s home at Greenmount WA, is now the home of the Katharine Susannah Prichard (KSP) Writers’ Centre, the oldest of its kind in Australia. To read the life story of this remarkable author, you can’t do better than to consult The Red Witch: A Biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard, by Nathan Hobby (Miegunyah Press, 2022). She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1951 and awarded the Joliot-Curie Medal for Service to Peace in 1959. She was notable in her lifetime for writing vivid novels that pioneered Australian social realism, writing novels, plays and short stories that depicted distinctively Australian life and work. Katharine Susannah Prichard (4 December 1883 – 2 October 1969) was an Australian playwright, novelist, author of short stories and journalism, and political activist. She was included in a tribute by Ohioana Library to three authors which the Ohio literary community lost in early 2020.Īwards: Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Book Award, 1995, Ohioana Book Award, 1995, and named a Notable Children’s Trade Book in the Language Arts, National Council of Teachers of English, 1995, all for Jericho Society of Midland Authors Award, 1999, for Susannah.Katharine Susannah Prichard (State Library of NSW, cropped) Janet Hickman passed away April 30, 2020, from complications due to Parkinson’s disease. She also wrote for the magazines Ingenue and Teen. She contributed to a number of professional journals including Ohio Reading Teacher, Research in the Teaching of English, Theory into Practice, and Language Arts. Cullinan) and Children`s Literature in the Elementary School (with Charlotte S. Hickman has also co-authored two adult books on children`s literature: Children`s Literature in the Classroom – Weaving Charlotte`s Web (with Bernice E. She received the Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Award for Jericho: A Novel in 1995. Her other children’s titles are The Stones Zoar Blue The Thunder-Pups Jericho: A Novel Susannah and Ravine. Her first book, The Valley of the Shadow, was published in 1974. Hickman wrote a number of books, most in the field of historical fiction for children and young adults. She also organized and co-chaired an annual conference dedicated to children’s literature for many years. She was a part-time instructor in children`s literature at Ohio State University from 1968 until 1973 and retired as a Professor of Education in 2005. Janet Hickman began her career in 1961 as a junior high school teacher in Whitehall, Ohio, a position in which she served until 1964. She married John Hickman in 1961, and the couple had two children, John H.

Janet Hickman was born Janet Gephart, daughter of Bernard Franklin and Pauline (Williams) Gephart, in Kilbourne, Ohio, in 1940.

Susannah by Janet Hickman