Dennis McEldowney was a New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 born author and publisher. His best known work was The World Regained. Auto-biographical in nature, it described how he dealt with being an invalid due to having a Tetralogy of Fallot

Tetralogy of Fallot

Tetralogy of Fallot is a congenital heart defect which is classically understood to involve four anatomical abnormalities...

. This book won McEldowney the 1958 Hubert Church Memorial Prize.

Early life

McEldowney was born on 29 January 1926 in Wanganui

Wanganui

Whanganui , also spelled Wanganui, is an urban area and district on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is part of the Manawatu-Wanganui region....

. He was born with a congenital heart defect, Tetralogy of Fallot. Due to this heart condition, McEldowney was an invalid until the age of 24.

Education and career

Because of his medical condition, McEldowney was educated through a correspondence school. Eventually he took a clerical job at School of Physical Education in Dunedin

Dunedin

Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago Region. It is considered to be one of the four main urban centres of New Zealand for historic, cultural, and geographic reasons. Dunedin was the largest city by territorial land area until...

. In 1966 he became the first editor Auckland University Press

Auckland University Press

Auckland University Press founded in 1966, is the book publishing arm of the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.It publishes New Zealand history, biography, poetry, short stories and essays, Maori and Pacific Island studies in addition to scholarly and academic works.-Awards:*AUP has...

and remained there until his retirement in 1986. He was eventually given an honorary Doctorate by Auckland University.

Books

• Full of the Warm South http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154634365&referer=brief_results
• A Press Achieved : the emergence of Auckland University Press, 1927–1972, with a brief epilogue to 1986 and a list of Auckland University College, University of Auckland, and Auckland University Press publications,http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47802051&referer=brief_results
• Shaking the Bee Tree http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37001316&referer=brief_results Describes his marriage to Zoe Greenough also a "blue baby"
• Then and There: a 1970's diary http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33850097&referer=brief_results
• The World Regained http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1454158&referer=brief_results