Cassandra pybus biography

Australian historian and writer (born 1947)

Cassandra Jean PybusFAHA (born 29 September 1947) is an Australian historian and writer. She is a former professorial fellow in history at the University of Sydney, and has published extensively on Australian and American history.^[1]

Pybus was born in Hobart, Tasmania and educated at North Sydney Girls High School and the University of Sydney.^[2] Her mother, Betty Pybus, was a pioneer of women's health in Sydney and Tasmania.^[3]

From 1989 to 1994, Pybus was editor of the literary magazine Island.

She won the Colin Roderick Award in 1993 for Gross Moral Turpitude, a re-examination of the case of Sydney Sparkes Orr, a Northern Irish academic who became embroiled in a scandal involving a relationship with a student whilst working at the University of Tasmania.^[4] In 2000, she won an Adelaide Festival Award for Literature for The Devil and James McAuley, a biography of the p