{{Short description|New Zealand historian (1935–2024)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox writer | name = Edmund Bohan | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MNZM|size=100%}} | image = Edmund Bohan (cropped).jpg | alt = | caption = Bohan in 2019 | birth_date = 5 October 1935 | birth_place = Christchurch, New Zealand | death_date = 23 March 2024 | death_place = Christchurch, New Zealand | occupation = {{flatlist| * Historian * biographer * novelist * singer * author }} | language = English | genre = | subject = | period = | notableworks = | awards = | influences = | influenced = | website = }} '''Edmund Bohan''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MNZM}}, also known as '''Ned Bohan''' (5 October 1935 – 23 March 2024), was a New Zealand historian, biographer, novelist, singer, and author.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.read-nz.org/writer/bohan-edmund/ |title=Bohan, Edmund |accessdate=14 September 2019 |publisher=ReadNZ}}</ref>
In the 2019 New Year Honours, Bohan was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to music, historical research, and literature.<ref>{{cite web | url= https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/new-year-honours-list-2019 | title=New Year honours list 2019 |date=14 September 2019 | publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet | accessdate=14 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.rnz.co.nz/concert/programmes/upbeat/audio/2018680546/opera-singer-and-historian-edmund-bohan-recognised-with-honour |title=Opera singer and historian Edmund Bohan recognised with Honour |date=31 January 2019 |accessdate=14 September 2019|publisher=Radio New Zealand}}</ref>
He died at Christchurch's Nurse Maude Hospice on 23 March 2024.<ref>{{cite news |title=Edmund Bohan Obituary |url= https://deaths.press.co.nz/nz/obituaries/the-press-nz/name/edmund-bohan-obituary?id=54747405 |work=The Press |access-date=10 July 2024}}</ref>
He explained his approach to writing to Rachel McAlpine as follows: “My literary attitude is comparatively simple, and the same as my historical attitude. I’m a story teller: I want to know what happened."<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=McAlpine |first=Rachel |title=Nine Winning Habits of Successful Authors |publisher=CC Press |year=2000 |isbn=0-473-06556-8 |location=Wellington, New Zealand |pages=42-43}}</ref>
==Published works==
==== Political Biographies<ref name=":0" /> ==== *''Edward Stafford: New Zealand's First Statesman'' (Hazard Press, 1994). *''Blest Madman: FitzGerald of Canterbury'' (Canterbury University Press, 1998). *''To Be a Hero: a biography of Sir George Grey'' (HarperCollins 1998).
==== Historical Detective Novels<ref name=":0" /> ==== *''The Opawa Affair'' (Hazard Press, 1996). *''The Dancing Man'' (Hazard Press, 1997). *''The Matter of Parihaka'' (Hazard Press, 1999). *''Singing Historian: A Memoir'' (Canterbury University Press, 2012).
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