Janet Frame, whose vividly romantic explorations of madness and language in novels, poetry and autobiography propelled her to worldwide attention, died Thursday in Dunedin, New Zealand. She was 79.

An Angel at My Table is a biographical film about New Zealand writer Janet Frame. It looks at her struggles with poverty, a wrong diagnosis of mental illness, and her eventual achievement of literary ...

YELLOW FLOWERS IN THE ANTIPODEAN ROOM by Janet Frame. 248 pages. Braziller. $5.95. Writing from the focus of the spiritually down and out, the demented and the dead, New Zealander Janet Frame has ...

THE ADAPTABLE MAN by Janet Frame. 277 pages. Braziller. $4.95. “I, the Rev. Aisley Maude . . . woke one morning, made my usual morning adjustment to God, with my Christian faith set strongly behind me ...