Frame, Janet (1924-2004), a New Zealand writer, gained an international reputation as a novelist. Frame's fiction has great poetic sensitivity and shows deep understanding of mentally disturbed people. Frame became best known for her autobiographical trilogy To the Is-Land (1982), An Angel at My Table (1984), and The Envoy from Mirror City (1985). Her other novels are Owls Do Cry (1957), Faces in the Water (1961), The Edge of the Alphabet (1962), Scented Gardens for the Blind (1963), The Adaptable Man (1965), A State of Siege (1966), The Rainbirds (1968), Intensive Care (1970), Daughter Buffalo (1972), Living in the Maniototo (1979), and The Carpathians (1988). Frame also wrote five collections of short stories, beginning with The Lagoon (1952), her first book. She also wrote a collection of poetry, Pocket Mirror (1967). Janet Paterson Frame was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on Aug. 28, 1924. She died on Jan. 29, 2004.