Dorothy Hewett

Dorothy Hewett AM
Hewett in 1981
Born	Dorothy Coade Hewett 21 May 1923 Perth, Western Australia
Died	25 August 2002 (aged 79) Springwood, New South Wales
Occupations	Playwright poet author
Years active	1941–2002
Children	6

Dorothy Coade Hewett AM (21 May 1923 – 25 August 2002) was an Australian playwright, poet and author. She wrote in a number of different literary styles: modernism, socialist realism, expressionism and avant garde. She was a member of the Australian Communist Party in the 1950s and 1960s, which informed her work during that period.

In her lifetime she had 22 plays performed, and she published nine collections of poetry, three novels and other prose works. There have been four anthologies of her poetry.