Ruth France, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ruth France

New Zealand librarian, poet, novelist

Date of Birth: 12-Jun-1913

Place of Birth: Leithfield, Canterbury Region, New Zealand

Date of Death: 19-Aug-1968

Profession: writer, poet, librarian, novelist, short story writer

Nationality: New Zealand

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Helena Ruth France (12 June 1913 – 19 August 1968) (known as Ruth France) was a New Zealand librarian, poet and novelist.
She was born in Leithfield, North Canterbury, New Zealand in 1913, and died in Christchurch in 1968, leaving a third adult novel The Tunnel unfinished.She lived in Lyttelton (on a yacht) and then in Sumner with her husband.
She was friends with Elsie Locke, but considered Christchurch authors and poets prejudiced against women. Her two published novels are The Race (1958) and Ice Cold River (1961).
She published poems under her own name, and two books of poems Unwilling Pilgrim (1955) and The Halting Place (1961) under the name of Paul Henderson.