Joyce Nicholson, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Joyce Nicholson

Australian writer

Date of Birth: 01-Jun-1919

Date of Death: 30-Jan-2011

Profession: writer, historian, children's writer

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Joyce Nicholson (née Thorpe) (1 June 1919 – 30 January 2011) was an Australian author and business woman, and a significant contributor to the Australian political organisation, the Women's Electoral Lobby. The daughter of publisher D.W.
Thorpe, Nicholson was born in Melbourne, and educated at Methodist Ladies' College and the University of Melbourne.
She was active in the women's movement as one of the founding members of the Woman's Electoral Lobby, and of Sisters Publishing.
She was a significant influence in the Australian publishing industry for many years as managing director, and later sole owner, of D.W.
Thorpe Pty Ltd, from 1968 until 1987, when the firm was sold.
She authored over 25 books, many of them dealing with children and women.
In 1983, Nicholson was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM), for "service to literature and the book publishing industry".
She married Harvey Nicholson and had four children: Peter, Hilary, Wendy, and Michael. Nicholson sponsored the Joyce Thorpe Nicholson Collection, a major collection of books by and about Australian women at Melbourne University.
It includes rare nineteenth century material, as well as scarce twentieth century political ephemera.
The Joyce Thorpe Nicholson Hall of Fame Award is sponsored by Thorpe Bowker and presented periodically to a designer whose body of work has made a significant contribution to the standards of book design in Australia.