death_date death_place pseudonym birth_place citizenship nationality name birth_date spouse genre article_title birth_name occupation
27 august 1998 taradale , new zealand essie summers christchurch , new zealand new zealand new zealand ethel snelson summers flett 24 july 1912 william flett 1956-1997 essie summers
 ethel snelson summers novelist
essie summers

essie summers -lrb- born `` ethel snelson summers '' on 24 july 1912 in christchurch , new zealand - d. 27 august 1998 -rrb- was a new zealand author who wrote so vividly of the people and landscape of her native country that she was offered the order of the british empire for her contributions to new zealand tourism .
