Confessions of a Homegrown Alien

About The Book And Author

Jan Smith is the author of two novels, An Ornament of Grace (Sun Books, 1966) and The Worshipful Company (Cassell, 1969), and co-author, with Dr William Vayda, of Health for Life: Are You Allergic to the Twentieth Century?  (Sphere Books, 1981)
After dropping out of the University of Queensland and working as a cadet  journalist on The Courier Mail Jan went to  Sydney and joined Woman's Day magazine. After three years on Woman’s Day, she was forced to resign because she had married a staff member,  and for the next fifty years survived by freelancing, notably for The Bulletin and Pol magazine, apart from a year on Forum UK, the sex magazine, and Australian Business.
She now lives happily in Kings Cross, Sydney,  with her cat, doing what she’d have rather done all along.