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Presenter
Biography


Joanne Drayton
Joanne Drayton is author of the memoir The Queen's Wife and is an acclaimed New York Times bestselling author who has published seven books and numerous chapters and articles. In 2007, she was awarded a National Library Fellowship; and in 2017, the prestigious Logan Fellowship at the Carey Institute in upstate New York. In 2019, her book Hudson & Halls: The Food of Love was the winner of the coveted Royal Society Te Aparangi Award for General Non-fiction at the NZ Book Awards.
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