Julia Millen is a historian, fiction writer and biographer whose works include biographies of New Zealand novelists Guthrie Wilson and Ronald Hugh Morrieson. Her numerous and diverse works of social history include: Colonial Tears and Sweat, the working class in nineteenth-century New Zealand and histories of LIANZA (the Library and Information Association of New Zealand) 1910-2010, legal firms Bell Gully Buddle Weir and Govett Quilliam; Glaxo: from Bonnie Babies to Better Medicines; Salute to Service, the Royal New Zealand Corps of Transport, Kirkcaldie & Stains, Wellington department store, IHC New Zealand, the NZ National Forest Survey and the Wellington Vintage Car Club of New Zealand. A writer for radio and television, including a period as presenter with the Concert Programme of Radio New Zealand, Millen has compiled, written and presented a series of documentaries of New Zealand and Australian musicians and composers. She has also scripted a programme for TVNZ and been a co-librettist, with Joy Tonks for two New Zealand operas, “Hypatia” and “The Golden Salamander.” Dilemma of Dementia, Millen’s moving account of caring for her mother who was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease was published to much acclaim in 1985. Since 2009 Julia has also been editor of the NZ National Library Society, Newsletter. Millen has also published a collection of short stories, Panama Hats and Pony Tails (1987) and her short stories, articles and reviews have appear in journals including Landfall, NZ Listener, NZ Law Journal, New Zealand Books and four volumes of The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (online Te Ara)

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