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The first book, Plumb (1978), covers the period from the 1890s through 1949; it is based on the career of Gee’s grandfather, a Presbyterian minister who was tried for heresy by his church and jailed for sedition by the state.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
In order to improve his income, Gee began working in television writing, including writing for 11 episodes of soap opera Close to Home and episodes of police drama Mortimer's Patch. [21][30] Two of his children's books, The Fire-Raiser (1986) and The Champion (1989) originated as television projects. [30]
Oct 19, 2024 · Gee’s books resonate across genre, across decades, back and forward through time, across ages: the political and environmental messages of his fantasy fiction (The O Trilogy, Salt, Gool,...
Maurice Gee's novel Blindsight (Penguin Books, 2005) won the Deutz Medal for Fiction, and the Montana Award for Fiction at the 2006 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Gee also jointly received the Readers' Choice Award with Fiona Kidman.
Continued Success as a Novelist In the early 2000s, Gee continued to publish novels for both younger readers and adults. In 2001, he published Ellie and the Shadow Man, for young adult readers, followed by two novels for adults, The Scornful Moon: A Moralist's Tale (2003) and Blindsight (2005).
Fiction, Children's. edit data. One of New Zealand’s most distinguished novelists, born in Whakatane, passed much of his childhood in the country town of Henderson (now contained by Auckland’s urban sprawl), and this background plays a major role in his fiction.
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Gee wrote on through the decades, gifting us Going West, Crime Story, Ellie and the Shadow Man, Blindsight and finally, in 2009, Access Road. Hearing it was to be his last novel felt like bereavement: sadness tinged with the tiniest flutter of relief that the itching and scratching might be over.
