RIP Deirdre O’Donnell

28 April 2010 Books+Publishing

Deirdre O’Donnell (née Hill), Australian Society of Authors (ASA) executive secretary from 1971-1981, has died aged 84.Robert Pullan, ASA chair writes:‘With one phone line and no staff when she was appointed in 1971, replacing the founding executive secretary, Jill Hellyer, Deirdre coped with poets who would be Henry Lawson but...