20 Apr 2019

Christina Thompson - The Puzzle of Polynesia

From Saturday Morning, 10:04 am on 20 April 2019
Christina Thompson

Christina Thompson Photo: supplied/ HarperCollins

Christina Thompson is the editor of Harvard Review and the author of Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story, which was shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart Prize for Nonfiction and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.

Her recent book Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia is her second book. A recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Australia Council, she was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award in 2016.

A dual citizen of the US and Australia, she lives outside of Boston. 

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