Sonja Davies nació el 11 de noviembre de 1923 en Nueva Zelanda. Fue una escritora, conocida por Bread & Roses (1993). Estuvo casada con Charlie Davies. Murió el 12 de junio de 2005 en Nueva Zelanda.
She outlived both of her children; her daughter Penny (whose father was
a US Marine who was killed in action before she was born), succumbed to
motor neurone disease, aged 50; her second child, Mark (from her
marriage to trades unionist Charlie Davies) was killed in a tunnelling
accident in 1978.