Mem Fox
Mem Fox AM (born March 5, 1946) is an Australian author of children's books and an educationalist specialising in literacy.
Born Merrion Frances Partridge, Fox prefers to be called "Mem", as she detests her birth given name.She was born in Melbourne, Australia but grew up in Zimbabwe. Her parents were missionaries and she attended the mission school. When she was eighteen, the harsh treatment of blacks in Zimbabwe pushed her away from the place where she grew up and she went to England where she was accepted into an English Drama school.
In 2004 a portrait of Fox, titled The Storyteller by the artist Henny Van den Wildenberg, was a finalist in the Archibald Prize.
Fox is retired and lives in a suburb of Adelaide with her husband and dogs, near the sea and close to her daughter.
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