Auteur : Jennifer Rowe vit à Sidney où elle est rédactrice en chef de The Woman's Weekly. Livre : Dans Soumissions, huit-clos à l'atmosphère menaçante, malsaine et ambiguë, l'Australienne Jennifer Rowe rend un hommage discret à Edgar Allan Poe, sans se départir d'une veine qui doit beaucoup à Agatha Christie, autant par l'intrigue efficace émaillée de fausses pistes et de rebondissements que par la justesse des sentiments qui habitent ses personnages.
Jennifer June Rowe is an Australian author. Her crime fiction for adults is published under her own name, while her children's fiction is published under the pseudonyms Emily Rodda and Mary-Anne Dickinson. She is well known for the children's fantasy series Deltora Quest, Rowan of Rin, Fairy Realm and Teen Power Inc., and recently the Rondo trilogy.
Rowe was born in Sydney, Australia, and raised with two younger brothers on Sydney's North Shore. Her father was Jim Oswin, the founding general manager of ATN7 in Sydney, and was responsible for classic 1960s TV shows such as My Name's McGooley, What's Yours? and The Mavis Bramston Show. She attended the Abbotsleigh School for Girls on the upper North Shore of Sydney.
She attained her Master of Arts in English Literature at the University of Sydney in 1973. Her first job was assistant editor at Paul Hamlyn publishing. She later worked at Angus and Robertson Publishers where she remained for fourteen years as Editor, Senior Editor, Managing Director, Deputy Publisher and finally Publisher. During this time she began writing children's books under the pseudonym Emily Rodda.