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Gillian Stead Eilersen is a writer and academic, and author of the first full-length biography of the iconic African author Bessie Head. She studied at the University of Natal and Odense University, Denmark, where she lectured in the Department of English until 1995. She was drawn to the writings of Bessie Head and discovered that she and Bessie had both grown up in Pietermaritzburg at the same time, but in very different circumstances. This research led to her acclaimed biography Bessie Head: Thunder Behind Her Ears (1995, reissued 2007). Gillian has published articles on a variety of academic and social issues as well as on Bessie Head’s life and work, and edited the Heinemann edition of Tales of Tenderness and Power (1989), a collection of short stories by Bessie Head.
Recent books:
Bessie Head: Thunder Behind Her Ears (Witswatersrand University Press: 2007)
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