Janet November

Born and educated in England, Janet November graduated in Russian from Nottingham University in 1968 and worked for the British Council before her husband's job took the family to Massachusetts, where she worked in a nursery school. Her first book, The Story of a Home Playgroup (non-fiction), was published by George Allen & Unwin, London, in 1980, with a Spanish edition published by Morata, translated by Juana Sancho.

In 1981, Janet emigrated to Melbourne with her husband and two children, graduating LLB from Melbourne University in 1984. The family moved to Wellington in 1987. While working for the law courts and the New Zealand Law Commission until 2010, she wrote three legal texts (published by Butterworths, 1999-2001) and a biography of New Zealand's first woman lawyer, In the Footsteps of Ethel Benjamin, published by Victoria University of Wellington Press for the Law Foundation NZ in 2009.

After retiring to Waiheke Island in 2011, she wrote The Herstory of OWLS, a history of the Otago Women Lawyers Society, produced at their request in 2019.