Authors by year of birth
Ross Fitzgerald was educated at Melbourne High School and Monash University and holds an MA from Case Western Reserve University and a doctorate from the University of New South Wales. Fitzgerald is...
Encouraged by W. Hart-Smith in 1976, Morris started writing poetry while in Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital's psychiatric ward; Let Me Learn the Steps was published in the following year. Morris has...
Roberta Sykes was born in Townsville and grew up in Queensland. Sykes attended St Patrick's College in Townsville, but left school at fourteen and worked at a variety of jobs. As a black woman, she...
Award-winning film director.
Born in Sydney, Weir attended The Scots College and Vaucluse Boys' High School, then undertook an Arts/Law degree at the University of Sydney, where his fellow students...
George Miller is the son of Greek immigrant parents. He attended Ipswich Grammar School, then studied medicine at the University of New South Wales with his twin brother John. While in his final year...
Dennis O'Rourke spent most of his early childhood in a small country town. He undertook his secondary education at a Catholic boarding school. In the late 1960s, after having spent two years at...
Peter Read has been a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of History, Australian National University. He has worked extensively in the field of Australian Indigenous history and has researched...
John Romeril was born and educated in Melbourne, attending Bentleigh West State School, Brighton Tech., and Brighton High, and graduating from Monash University in 1970 with majors in English...
Peter Skrzynecki spent his early years in Poland before his parents emigrated to Australia. After living for a time in the migrant camp outside Parkes, New South Wales (NSW), the family moved to...
Dr Anne Summers AO has had a wide ranging career in journalism and politics.
In her political career she was an adviser to Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating and ran the Office of the Status of Women...
Bill Ashcroft teaches at the University of New South Wales.
Ken Cameron is a well known film and television director.
Mem Fox was born in Melbourne, but her father, grandfather, great- and great-great-grandfather were South Australian. Her parents sailed for Africa when she was seven months old, to serve as teachers...
Born in Germany, Raimond Gaita came to Australia with his parents at the age of four, and was brought up largely by his father, near Barninghup, Victoria. He attended the University of Melbourne,...
Drusilla Modjeska was born in England, but, after spending some time in New Guinea during the 1960s, she has lived in Australia since 1971. After studying at the Australian National University,...
Jan Ormerod was trained in design and worked in art schools and colleges until her first child was born. It was at this time that Ormerod became interested in picture books and felt this would...
Petru Popescu was at one time Romania's most famous opposition writer. He escaped from communist Romania to the United States of America in 1977 and went on to become a best-selling American author...
Ruth Starke is based in Adelaide, South Australia, and has written largely for children and young adults.
Starke gained a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours at Flinders University, winning two...
Peter Temple has worked in several countries as a journalist and editor. He moved to Australia in 1980 and settled in Sydney, before moving to Melbourne to edit the journal Australian Society. He has...
Gus Worby was born in Stockport, England in 1946. He migrated to Australia with his family in 1954 and settled in Geelong where he attended Geelong Grammar School.He studied Arts at Melbourne...
Ian Abdulla's mother, Jemima Hunter, was from Raukkan (Port McLeay) and his father was an Afghan man from Hawker in the Flinders Ranges. He and his twin brother Rodney were born under a tree on the...
Gary Crew was born and educated in Brisbane, Queensland, leaving school at sixteen to work as a draftsman. He attained a certificate in Engineering Drafting from the Queensland Institute of...
Marele Day was born and educated in Sydney, taking a BA in French and English from the University of Sydney. After teaching for several years, she travelled extensively, living in Britain, Europe,...
Actor, playwright, director, academic. Richard Fotheringham grew up in country Queensland and received his university education at The University of Queensland. He has been active in Australian...
Elizabeth Honey grew up on a dairy farm in Wonthaggi, Victoria. She studied film and television at Swinburne College of Technology in Melbourne, where she completed a Diploma in Film and Television....
Ray Lawrence moved to Australia as a child and for many years worked at Window productions making commercials. Bliss was Lawrence's first feature film and was nominated for Cannes' Golden Palm and...
Amanda Lohrey completed her education at the University of Tasmania before winning a scholarship to Cambridge University. Returning to Australia without completing her course, Lohrey worked for...
Born in 1947, David Marr grew up and went to school and university in Sydney, New South Wales. Although he is a qualified solicitor and barrister he has never practised law. From 1972, after...
Bruce Pascoe, a Bunurong man, is a member of the Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative of southern Victoria. He has combined writing fiction and non-fiction with a career as a successful publisher and...
John Thompson is a Sydney-based writer and historian. He worked for many years at the National Library of Australia where he held a number of senior positions including Director, Australian...
Arnold Zable, the child of Polish-Jewish refugee parents, grew up in Carlton, Victoria. He lectured in social sciences and environmental studies at the University of Melbourne during the 1970s, and...
Roger Bennett's parents were Elliott and Ada (nee Conelly) Bennett. His father was 'Elley' Bennett, champion bantam and featherweight boxing fighter. Bennett spent his childhood in Brisbane. When he...
'Eve N. Malley is a prominent Melbourne-born bon vivant and poet who once earned her living as John and Sunday Weed's kitchen hand. She has published monographs on cooking, sex, gardening, comic...
Marion Campbell holds degrees from the universities of Western Australia and Provence. She has worked as a Tutor in French, and in Writing and Literature at Murdoch University. Currently she is a...
Born in Broome in 1948 to a Bardi Aboriginal mother with Scottish heritage and a Broome born father whose parents were Chinese and Japanese, Jimmy Chi embodies his hometown's cultural diversity....
John Clarke grew up in Palmerston North and received his secondary education at Scots College and Victoria University (both institutions being in Wellington, New Zealand). At university, Clarke...
