Awards & Winners

Jill Ker Conway

Date of Birth 09-October-1934
Place of Birth Hillston
(Australia, New South Wales)
Nationality United States of America, Australia
Also know as Clare Munnings
Profession Historian, Author, Professor, Novelist
Jill Ker Conway, AC is an Australian-American author. Well known for her autobiographies, in particular her first memoir, The Road from Coorain. She was also Smith College's first woman president, from 1975–1985, and now serves as a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2004 she was designated a Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project.

Awards by Jill Ker Conway

Check all the awards nominated and won by Jill Ker Conway.

1990


Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography The Road from Coorain

1989


L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award
Honored for : The Road from Coorain