Rosalie Horner (1959) was a Fleet Street journalist for 30 years, interviewing Michael Caine, Judi Dench, Rudolph Nureyev, Joan Sutherland and many more. She was a London theatre critic, and has written two non-fiction books, Inside BBC Television and Great TV Entertainment. She completed Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne, took part in student theatre, and later became a presenter on ABC Television. Her love of theatre appeared early; she was in the 1959 school play Noah by André Obey. 

Rosalie joined PLC Burwood from PLC’s sister school in Pymble, Sydney, completing Leaving and Matriculation in Melbourne. She left Australia in 1966 and went to Perugia’s L’Università per Stranieri, working in Rome for Paramount Pictures before going to London where she joined the Daily Express. Rosalie married, had two children and remained in London for 50 years. In 2009, she completed an Italian degree at University College London and in 2018 she returned to live permanently in Sydney.

Rosalie has just published her first novel, Waltzing Mathilde: Letters to a Little Girl, based on her grandmother Mathilde Plate’s story, after the family found 40 letters sent to Mathilde from Germany.