Myfanwy Horne, who also writes as Myfanwy Gollan, was born in Newcastle, NSW in 1933. She trained as a journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald and has contributed to newspapers, magazines and books as a reviewer, columnist and social commentator. She was consulting editor for all her husband's published work, starting with The Lucky Country in 1964. She has been involved pro bono in a number of cultural and social projects, including producing the photographic exhibition, The Struggle for Australian Democracy 1788 to the Present, which toured Australia in the late 1970s.
