- Lisa Hobbs Birnie was born in 1928 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She is a writer, known for At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story (1998), Scorn (2000) and The Most Dangerous Animal of All (2020).
- SpousesJohn Koerner(2003 - February 23, 2014) (his death)Jack Edison Hobbs (divorced, 2 children)
- Australian journalist who worked for the San Francisco Examiner from 1961 to 1977. In 1965, she became the first female reporter from an American newspaper ever to go behind the Bamboo Curtain into China. She took advantage of her Australian birth and passport and obtained a visa through Australian acquaintances, entering China with an Australian group.
- She was a full-time member of the National Parole Board of Canada in Ottawa from 1978 to 1986.
- In 1963, she hosted an interview show on KFRC radio in San Francisco.
- Began college at the University of Melbourne in Australia and finished 12 years later when she received her B.A. from the San Francisco College for Women.
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