Elisabeth Wynhausen

Wynhausen died of pancreatic cancer on 5 September 2013 at the age of 67. Both of her parents and her brother having already died, she was survived by her niece Gabi and her nephew Jesse and their partners and children.

Two of her books were shortlisted for Australian literary awards: Dirt Cheap: Life at the Wrong End of the Job Market in 2006 for the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non Fiction in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards and Manly Girls for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards.

In 2005 the Australian journalist Ellen Fanning criticised an article by Wynhausen on poverty in "none-too-complimentary terms", accusing her of not acknowledging that article's inspiration by the American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich's book Nickel and Dimed. Fanning also claimed that Wynhausen's book, Dirt Cheap: Life at the Wrong End of the Job Market, on the same subject erred by suggesting that the American problems pertained in Australia when "it's not really Australia's dilemma".

She grew up in Manly in Sydney's northern beaches area. After a brief spell teaching at Frensham School, she joined The Daily Telegraph as a cadet in 1970 and later worked as a staff writer for The Bulletin magazine.

In 1970 she left for New York where she would work for twelve years as a foreign correspondent for The National Times and The Age newspapers and also submit articles to The Australian Women's Weekly.

Elisabeth Wynhausen (23 June 1946 – 5 September 2013) was a Dutch-born Australian journalist and author. During her career she worked as a senior journalist with The Australian and in her earlier years for The Bulletin, The National Times and The Age. In her articles and books she was "passionate about social justice and telling 'people' stories".

Elisabeth Wynhausen was born in Maastricht in the Netherlands on 23 June 1946. Her parents were Paul Wynhausen and Marianne Nathans, "Dutch Jews who had escaped the Nazis". She migrated to Australia with her parents and her younger brother Jules in 1951.