- Libby Gleeson
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name = Libby Gleeson
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birth_date = 1950
birth_place =Young, New South Wales
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occupation = Author
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spouse =Euan Touvey
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children =Jessica Tovey
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relatives =Michael Gleeson
website = www.libbygleeson.com.au/
footnotes =Libby Gleeson (born 1950) is an
Australia n children's author. Born inYoung, New South Wales , she is one of six children, the sister of former ABC TVWashington CorrespondentMichael Gleeson and the mother of "Home and Away " actressJessica Tovey .She studied at the
University of Sydney before teaching for two years in the rural town ofPicton nearSydney . In the mid-1970s she lived for five years inItaly and thenLondon , where she began to write her first novel, "Eleanor Elizabeth".In the last twenty years, she has written twenty books and taught occasional courses in creative writing. She specialises in picture books, novels for young kids and also novels for slightly older readers. She's also written scripts for the ABC's "
Bananas in Pyjamas " and "Magic Mountain ". She is married to scientistEuan Tovey , has three adult daughters and lives in Sydney's inner west.ee also
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Michael Gleeson
*Jessica Tovey Notes
External links
* [http://www.libbygleeson.com.au/ Libby Gleeson website]
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NAME=Gleeson, Libby
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SHORT DESCRIPTION= Children's author
DATE OF BIRTH= 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH=Young, New South Wales
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