Janet Frame was born on 28 August 1924 in Dunedin, New Zealand. She was a writer, known for A State of Siege (1978) and An Angel at My Table (1990). She died on 29 January 2004 in Dunedin, New Zealand.
In 1973 she legally changed her surname to Clutha, after the river
south of Oamaru, New Zealand, where she grew up as child, but continued
to write under the name Janet Frame.
