About the Author

Keith Newman is an award-winning journalist, with over 30 years' experience in mainstream and trade media, including newspapers, magazines and radio.

His first book, Ratana Revisited- An Unfinished Legacy, was published in 2006, with the follow-up biography, Ratana- The Prophet, released in 2009. Bible & Treaty- Missionaries Among the Maori was published in 2010, and its companion, Beyond Betrayal- Trouble in the Promised Land - Restoring the Mission to Maori, is forthcoming in 2013.

Newman lives with his wife, artist Paula Novak, in the Cape Coast township of Haumoana, Hawke's Bay, where he moved in 2009 after 25 years in Waitakere City, Auckland.