Wendy Lowenstein

Wendy Lowenstein was born in 1927 and started school in 1932 — the deepest year of the Great Depression. She has been a print and radio journalist, a factory worker, a full-time mother, a history teacher, and a school librarian. She was founder editor of the journal Australian Tradition, and her first book, Shocking, Shocking, Shocking: improper play rhymes of Australian children, was self-published on a roneo machine. She has since self-published other books, including Under the Hook: Melbourne Waterside Workers Remember, Self-Publishing Without Pain, and Weevils at Work: what’s happening to work in Australia. Wendy Lowenstein died in 2006.