Kerry Greenwood

Kerry Greenwood
Kerry Greenwood signing books at the launch of Forbidden Fruit
Born	Kerry Greenwood 17 June 1954 Melbourne
Occupation	Writer, locum solicitor
Language	English
Nationality	Australian
Genres	Crime, historical, science-fiction
Notable work(s)	Phryne Fisher series
Notable award(s)	Multiple, see below
Partner(s)	Registered wizard
Children	None

Kerry Greenwood (born 17 June 1954 in Footscray, Victoria) is a solicitor from Melbourne, Australia. She is also the author of many plays and books, most notably a string of historical detective novels centred on the character of Phryne Fisher. She writes mysteries, science-fiction, historical fiction, and children's stories, as well as plays. She is unmarried but lives with a "registered wizard".

Awards and nominations

• Aurealis Award for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Division, Best Novel, 1996: joint winner for The Broken Wheel
• Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Book of the Year: Younger Readers, 2002: honour book for A Different Sort of Real : The Diary of Charlotte McKenzie, Melbourne 1918-1919
• Davitt Award, Best Young Fiction Book, 2002: winner for The Three-Pronged Dagger
• Davitt Award, Best Young Fiction Book, 2003: nominated for The Wandering Icon
• Davitt Award, Best Adult Novel, 2003: nominated for Murder in Montparnasse : A Phryne Fisher Mystery
• Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing, Lifetime Contribution, 2003
• Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2005: shortlisted for Heavenly Pleasures : A Corinna Chapman Novel
• Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2005: shortlisted for Queen of the Flowers : A Phryne Fisher Mystery
• New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Books, 2006: shortlisted for Journey to Eureka
• Davitt Award, Readers' Choice Award, 2006: joint winner for Heavenly Pleasures : A Corinna Chapman Novel
• Davitt Award, Readers' Choice Award, 2007: joint winner for Devil's Food
• Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2008: nominated for Trick or Treat

Books

Phryne Fisher historical mysteries

1. Cocaine Blues (1989) aka Death by Misadventure
2. Flying Too High (1990)
3. Murder on the Ballarat Train (1991)
4. Death at Victoria Dock (1992)
5. The Green Mill Murder (1993)
6. Blood And Circuses (1994)
7. Ruddy Gore (1995)
8. Urn Burial (1996)
9. Raisins and Almonds (1997)
10. Death Before Wicket (1999)
11. Away With the Fairies (2001)
12. Murder in Montparnasse (2002)
13. The Castlemaine Murders (2003)
14. Queen of the Flowers (2004)
15. Death By Water (2005)
16. Murder in the Dark (2006)
17. Murder on a Midsummer Night (2008)
18. Dead Man's Chest (2010)

• The Phryne Fisher Mysteries: Cocaine Blues / Flying Too High (omnibus) (2004)
• A Question of Death (short story collection) (2008)

Corinna Chapman mysteries

1. Earthly Delights (2004)
2. Heavenly Pleasures (2005)
3. Devil's Food (2006)
4. Trick or Treat (2007)
5. Forbidden Fruit (2009)
6. Cooking the Books (2011)

Delphic Women

• Cassandra (1995)
• Electra (1996)
• Medea (1997)

Spinouts (with Michael Pryor and Catherine Randle)

• The Bold and The Brave (2000)

Stormbringer

The Broken Wheel, Whaleroad, Cave Rats and Feral are prequels to the Stormbringer trilogy. Characters in Stormbringer refer to events in those books, but are otherwise independent.

• The Rat and the Raven (2005)
• Lightning Nest (2006)
• Ravens Rising (2006)

Novels

• The Wandering Icon (1992)
• The Childstone Cycle (1994)
• Quest (1996)
• The Broken Wheel (1996)
• Whaleroad (1996)
• Cave Rats (1997)
• Feral (1998)
• Whaleroad, Cave Rats and Feral published in one volume in 2002

Collections

• Recipes for Crime (1995) (with Jenny Pausacker)

Anthologies edited

• Bad to the Bones (2002)

Short fiction

"Jetsam" (1998) in Dreaming Down-Under (ed. Jack Dann, Janeen Webb)

Non-fiction

• On Murder (2000)
• On Murder 2 (2002)

TV and film

The Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries television series was filmed in and around Melbourne in 2011 and premiered on ABC1 on 24 February 2012.

External links

• Phyrne Fisher's website
• Corinna Chapman's website
• Interview with Kerry Greenwood at Allen & Unwin
• Sue Ryan-Fazilleau, "Kerry Greenwood's 'Rewriting' of Agatha Christie", JASAL 7 (2007)
• "On the couch with Kerry Greenwood". The Age. 14 August 2003. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/13/1060588441841.html. Retrieved 2008-06-15. 
• "Getting Feral With Kerry". Diverse Universe. September 2003. http://www.spacedoutinc.org/DU-17/KerryGreenwoodInterview.html. Retrieved 2009-11-30. 
• "George Negus Tonight with Kerry Greenwood". ABC. 23 February 2004. http://www.abc.net.au/gnt/history/Transcripts/s1051040.htm. Retrieved 2009-11-30. 
• "Death by Water - Review". The Age. 26 June 2005. http://www.theage.com.au/news/reviews/death-by-water/2005/06/25/1119321938129.html. Retrieved 2009-11-30. 
• "Crime According to Kerry Greenwood". Kathleen Fisher's Tiny Purple Fish blog. September 2007. http://tinypurplefishphotography.blogspot.com/2007/10/crime-according-to-kerry-greenwood.html. Retrieved 2009-11-30. 
• "Author Interview: Kerry Greenwood". Sydney Writers' Centre blog. 19 October 2007. http://thestorysofar.typepad.com/valeries_blog/2007/10/author-intervie.html. Retrieved 2009-11-30.