Moyra Caldecott
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Moyra
Caldecott |
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June 1, 1927
Pretoria, South Africa |
| Died: |
May 23, 2015
Bath, England, UK |
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| Nationality: |
British |
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Biography
Moyra Caldecott was a South African-born British author of historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction and non-fiction. Her works include The Sacred Stones and The Egyptian Sequence. She also wrote under the pseudonym Olivia Brown.
Moyra was born in Pretoria, South Africa, to Jessica Florence (Harris) and Frederick Stanley Brown. Moyra studied at the University of Natal, obtaining degrees in English Literature and Philosophy and a Master's in English Literature. In 1950, she moved to Cape Town and became a lecturer in English at the University of Cape Town, where she met Oliver Caldecott, an anti-apartheid campaigner. In 1951, they moved to the UK and married in London. Once settled, she took evening classes in geology, religious studies, mythology, archaeology, Egyptian hieroglyphics and pottery. She also took up watercolour painting, pottery, batik making and the creation of stained glass. She raised three children as well.
In 2000, she became one of the earliest proponents of commercial e-books when she contracted with Mushroom eBooks to re-publish most of her titles in electronic formats.
She had a reputation as a novelist who wrote as vividly about the adventures and experiences to be encountered in the inner realms of the human consciousness as she did about those in the outer physical world. To Moyra, reality was multidimensional.
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