Fiona Murray (1) Gloria Isabel Bevan aka Gloria Bevan Gloria Isabel was born on 20 July 1911 in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Australia, but at three moved to New Zealand. In 1937, she married Thomas Henry Bevan, and they had three daughters. She worked at typist, before started to writing mystery novels as Fiona Murray in 1965, and later under her married name, Gloria Bevan, she wrote 25 contemporary romance novels for Mills & Boon from 1969 to 1992, many of which are setting in her loved New Zealand. Fiona Murray (2) Children's author