# AI Context for Frances Letters

## Profile
- Name: Frances Letters
- About me: Born 12 November 1944, Armidale NSW

The old prejudices I grew up with in White Australia, and how life coaxed and pummelled me out of them, is the cornerstone of my writing these days. 

Being a child then had meant looking down my nose at people "not like us": particularly anyone of a different race or religion.

It was years spent travelling in South\-East Asia and India that first prised open my eyes and heart. 

My path out of that narrow world was very rocky at times\-\-but adventurous and immense fun, too. I've just finished writing "Them", an account of this journey away from a closed heart and mind; I hope to publish it soon.

I wrote and illustrated two books about my travels.

"The Surprising Asians" is a personal account of hitchhiking round South\-East Asia during the Vietnam war \(Angus & Robertson 1968\); it was a set text for NSW School Certificate English.

"People of Shiva" tells of a year's adventures and the
 people I met travelling in India \(Angus & Robertson, 1971\).

Learning Transcendental Meditation deepened my experience of the oneness of humanity. 

I've been a journalist on the Sydney Morning Herald, and worked as an editor, freelancer, travel writer, cleaner, cook, factoryhand, Portobello Road stallholder...
From 1977 to 1980 I taught Transcendental Meditation in Spain. 

 I'm interested in social justice, travel, anything to do with science for the layman, the environment, human spiritual evolution.

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