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Author - Dr Heather Brooks Born into the age when there were few vaccinations and antibiotics, Dr Heather Brooks' childhood included many experiences of infectious diseases. Thus began her fascination with the microbes that make us ill. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science with Honours from the University of Surrey (UK), she went on to complete a PhD in Medical Microbiology at St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, University of London (UK). Plans for a career in medical research were stymied by an economic downturn and, almost by accident, she turned to the diagnostic medical laboratory sector for a secure form of employment. However, the call back to research would not go away, eventually compelling her to seek out a new life in New Zealand where she has been happily researching and teaching medical microbiology as a university academic since 1977. For the past 30 years, Dr Brooks has taught in the University of Otago Medical Laboratory Science programme. Illustrator - Lisa McComish
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Neil Broom was, until his retirement in 2018, an academic in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Auckland. During his lecturing career Neil introduced multitudes of first year engineering students to the science of materials. Neil is an Emeritus Professor and a Fellow of the Royal Society of NZ.
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The Crump brothers, all sons of the late Barry Crump, are (oldest-youngest)- Ivan, Martin, Stephen, Harry, Erik and Lyall.
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Helen Brown was born in New Zealand. An award-winning columnist and journalist, she is the author of more than a dozen books, including Cleo, a memoir about a cat and the accidental death of Helen's nine-year-old son Sam, which has sold 2 million copies around the world. Helen's Huffington Post blog was read by more than 26 million people. She lives in Melbourne.
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Diane Brown is a novelist, memoirist and poet who runs her own creative writing school, Creative Writing Dunedin. Her publications include two collections of poetry (Before the Divorce We Go to Disneyland and Learning to Lie Together), a novel (If the Tongue Fits), a verse novel (Eight Stages of Grace), a travel memoir (Liars and Lovers), a prose/poetic memoir (Here Comes Another Vital Moment) and a poetic family memoir (Taking My Mother to the Opera). In 2013 she was made a Member of New Zealand Order of Merit for services to writing and education.