Frame, Janet (1924-2004), a New Zealand writer, gained an international reputation as a novelist. Frame’s fiction has great poetic sensitivity and shows deep understanding of mentally disturbed people. Frame became best known for her autobiographical trilogy To the Is-Land (1982), An Angel at My Table (1984), and The Envoy from Mirror City (1985). Her other novels include Owls Do Cry (1957), Faces in the Water (1961), The Edge of the Alphabet (1962), Scented Gardens for the Blind (1963), Towards Another Summer (written in 1963 but published in 2009, after her death), The Adaptable Man (1965), A State of Siege (1966), The Rainbirds (1968), Intensive Care (1970), Daughter Buffalo (1972), In the Memorial Room (written in 1974 but published in 2013, after her death), Living in the Maniototo (1979), and The Carpathians (1988). Frame also wrote several collections of short stories, including The Lagoon (1952), her first book, and Between My Father and the King: New and Uncollected Stories (published in 2013, after her death). She also wrote a collection of poetry, Pocket Mirror (1967). Janet Paterson Frame was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on Aug. 28, 1924. She died on Jan. 29, 2004.
