Kerry Greenwood

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Kerry Greenwood (born 17 June 1954 in Footscray, Victoria^[1]) is a soliciter 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."

Contents 1 Awards and nominations 2 Books 2.1 Phryne Fisher novels 2.2 Delphic Women 2.3 Spinouts (with Michael Pryor and Catherine Randle) 2.4 Corinna Chapman 2.5 Stormbringer 2.6 Novels 2.7 Collections 2.8 Anthologies edited 2.9 Non-fiction 3 Notes 4 External links

[edit] 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 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

[edit] Books

[edit] Phryne Fisher novels

Cocaine Blues (1991) aka Death by Misadventure Flying Too High (1992) Murder on the Ballarat Train (1992) Death at Victoria Dock (1993) The Green Mill Murder (1993) Blood And Circuses (1994) Ruddy Gore (1995) Urn Burial (1995) Raisins and Almonds (1997)

Death before wicket : a Phryne Fisher mystery (2003, c1999) Murder in Montparnasse (2002) The Castlemaine Murders (2004) The Phryne Fisher Mysteries: Cocaine Blues / Flying Too High (omnibus) (2004) Queen of the Flowers (2004) Away With the Fairies (2005) Death By Water (2005) Murder in the Dark (2006) A Question of Death: An illustrated Phryne Fisher treasury (2007) Murder on a Midsummer Night (2008)

[edit] Delphic Women

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

[edit] Spinouts (with Michael Pryor and Catherine Randle)

• The Bold and The Brave (2000)

[edit] Corinna Chapman

• Earthly Delights (2004)
• Heavenly Pleasures (2005)
• Devil's Food (2006)
• Trick or Treat (2007)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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

Alien Invasions (2000) (with Shannah Jay and Lucy Sussex, edited by Paul Collins and Meredith Costain) A different sort of real : the diary of Charlotte McKenzie, Melbourne 1918-1919 (2001) The Three-Pronged Dagger (2002) Danger Do Not Enter (2003) The Long Walk (2004) Journey to Eureka (2005)

[edit] Collections

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

[edit] Anthologies edited

• Bad to the Bones (2002)

[edit] Non-fiction

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

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• Interview with Kerry Greenwood at Allen & Unwin
• Kerry Greenwood's official website
• "On the couch with Kerry Greenwood" (in English). The Age. 14 August 2003. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/13/1060588441841.html. Retrieved on 2008-06-15.