Jane Tolerton is a Wellington writer. Having studied History and
American Studies at the University of Canterbury, she became a
newspaper reporter and magazine feature writer, winning the Dulux
News Award and the Cowan Prize for Historical Journalism.
She and Nicholas Boyack set up the World War One Oral History
Archive while based at the Stout Research Centre at Victoria
University of Wellington in 1987. They interviewed 84 veterans and
produced In the Shadow of War (1990). Tolerton's bestselling An
Awfully Big Adventure- New Zealand World War One veterans tell
their stories, is a chronological oral history of the war edited
from the interviews. It was one of the New Zealand Listener's 100
Best Books of 2013.
Her other oral history books are Convent Girls (1984), Sixties
Chicks (1987) and It's Time We Started Telling These Stories
(2008), which was part of the It's Not Okay campaign against family
violence.
Tolerton won a New Zealand Book Award and PEN Best First Book prize
for Ettie- A Life of Ettie Rout (1992). She decided to write a
shorter, more accessible version of Ettie Rout's safer sex campaign
as part of the centennial commemoration of the First World War.
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