Deborah AbelaW
Deborah Abela

Deborah Abela is an Australian author of children's books, most notably the Max Remy, Super Spy series, Grimsdon and Teresa – A New Australian. She was born in Sydney, Australia, and has been writing for 15 years.

Dora BirtlesW
Dora Birtles

Dora Birtles, was an Australian novelist, short-story writer, poet and travel writer. She was the daughter of Albert Toll, founder of Toll Holdings, Australia's largest logistics company.

Gillian BourasW
Gillian Bouras

Gillian Bouras is an expatriate Australian writer who has written several books, short stories and articles, many of these dealing with her experiences as an Australian woman in Greece.

Mary Grant BruceW
Mary Grant Bruce

Mary Grant Bruce, also known as Minnie Bruce, was an Australian children's author and journalist. While all her thirty-seven books enjoyed popular success in Australia and overseas, particularly in the United Kingdom, she was most famous for the Billabong series, focussing on the adventures of the Linton family on Billabong Station in Victoria and in England and Ireland during World War I.

Isobelle CarmodyW
Isobelle Carmody

Isobelle Jane Carmody is an Australian writer of science fiction, fantasy, children's literature, and young adult literature. She is recipient of the Aurealis Award for best children's fiction.

Nan ChauncyW
Nan Chauncy

Nan Chauncy was a British-born Australian children's writer.

Jean CurlewisW
Jean Curlewis

Jean Curlewis was the daughter of Ethel Turner and Herbert Curlewis. An author in her own right, she battled tuberculosis for many years before dying at only 32 years of age.

Mary Daly (Australian writer)W
Mary Daly (Australian writer)

Dame Mary Dora Daly, was an Australian author, humanitarian and charity worker.

Mary DurackW
Mary Durack

Dame Mary Durack was an Australian author and historian. She wrote Kings in Grass Castles and Keep Him My Country.

Mem FoxW
Mem Fox

Merrion Frances "Mem" Fox, AM is an Australian writer of children's books and an educationalist specialising in literacy. Fox has been semi-retired since 1996, but still gives seminars and lives in Adelaide, South Australia.

Pamela FreemanW
Pamela Freeman

Pamela Freeman is an Australian author of books for both adults and children. Most of her work is fantasy but she has also written mystery stories, science fiction, family dramas and non-fiction. Her first adult series, the Castings Trilogy is published globally by Orbit books. She is best known in Australia for the junior novel Victor’s Quest and an associated series, the Floramonde books, and for The Black Dress: Mary MacKillop’s Early Years, which won the NSW Premier's History Prize in 2006.

Jackie FrenchW
Jackie French

Jacqueline French is an Australian author who has written over 140 books and has won more than 60 national and international awards. She is considered one of Australia's most popular and awarded children's authors, writing across a number of children's genres including picture books, history, fantasy and history fiction.

May GibbsW
May Gibbs

Cecilia May Gibbs MBE was an Australian children's author, illustrator, and cartoonist. She is best known for her gumnut babies, and the book Snugglepot and Cuddlepie.

Kate GordonW
Kate Gordon

Kate Gordon is an Australian writer of young adult fiction.

Libby HathornW
Libby Hathorn

Elizabeth Helen "Libby" Hathorn is an Australian writer primarily for children, and a poet who works with schools, institutions and communities. She has received many awards for her books, some of which have been translated into several languages. In 2001 she was awarded a Centenary Medal for her contribution to children's theatre. In 2014 she was awarded the Alice Award for her contribution to Australian literature.

Sue HinesW
Sue Hines

Sue Hines is an award-winning Australian children's author, radio presenter and watercolourist. Born in London, she emigrated to Sydney in 1966.

Elisabeth MacIntyreW
Elisabeth MacIntyre

Elisabeth MacIntyre(born Elisabeth Innes MacIntyre, also spelled Elizabeth MacIntyre; 1916–2004) was an Australian writer and illustrator. She mainly produced children's picture books and cartoon strips, but also created cartoon strips for adults and novels for young adults. She is recognised as "a staunch advocate of promoting Australian animals and surrounds in an era when the majority of children's books were imported from England". Her picture books appealed for their lively, bright illustrations and "irresistible", "infectious", stories, which used line and words economically and effectively. She was successful in the Australian, American and British markets, and some of her novels were also translated into German and Japanese. Her best known works are Ambrose Kangaroo, Susan, Who Lives in Australia, and Hugh's Zoo, for which she won the Australian Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book in 1965.

Amy MackW
Amy Mack

Amy Eleanor Mack, also known as Amy Eleanor Harrison and Mrs. Launcelot Harrison, was an Australian writer, journalist, and editor. She was honorary secretary of the National Council of Women of New South Wales. She is best known as a children's author of such books as Bushland stories (1910) and Scribbling Sue (1914) and others, as well as a journalist and an editor of Sydney Morning Herald.

Jeni MawterW
Jeni Mawter

Jeni (J.A.) Mawter is an Australian children's author who has published over twenty books, including the best-selling series, the So series. She has published fiction and non-fiction, poetry and verse narrative for children and young adults. Her books have ranged from picture books, to chapter books, short story collections to young adult novels. Her novel, Team Dream, was published in 2005.

Glenda MillardW
Glenda Millard

Glenda Millard is an Australian writer of children's literature and young adult fiction.

Joyce NicholsonW
Joyce Nicholson

Joyce Nicholson was an Australian author and business woman.

Ruth ParkW
Ruth Park

Rosina Ruth Lucia Park AM was a New Zealand–born Australian author. Her best known works are the novels The Harp in the South (1948) and Playing Beatie Bow (1980), and the children's radio serial The Muddle-Headed Wombat (1951–1970), which also spawned a book series (1962–1982).

Ethel PedleyW
Ethel Pedley

Ethel Charlotte Pedley was an English-Australian author and musician.

Ethel TurnerW
Ethel Turner

Ethel Turner was an English-born Australian novelist and children's literature writer.

Frances WattsW
Frances Watts

Frances Watts is the pen-name of Ali Lavau, a Swiss born Australian author, who moved to Sydney, Australia when she was three years old. She has studied English literature at Macquarie University, going on to teach Australian Literature and children's literature. After graduating with a PhD, she obtained her first job in publishing.

Nadia WheatleyW
Nadia Wheatley

Nadia Wheatley is an Australian writer whose work includes picture books, novels, biography and history. Perhaps best known for her classic picture book My Place, the author's biography of Charmian Clift was described by critic Peter Craven as 'one of the greatest Australian biographies'. Another great book by her is A Banner Bold, which is an historical novel.

Vanessa WoodsW
Vanessa Woods

Vanessa Woods is an Australian science writer, author and journalist, and is the main Australian/New Zealand feature writer for the Discovery Channel. A graduate of the Australian National University with a Master's degree in Science Communication, and an author of children's books, she is best known for her work in both the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo comparing the different cooperative behaviors of bonobos and common chimpanzees. Her mother is of Chinese descent. She is the author of Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo and It's Every Monkey for Themselves: A True Story of Sex, Love, and Lies in the Jungle.