Kerry Greenwood by John Lamp, 2009. Retrieved from Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (accessed: December 15, 2021).
Kerry Greenwood
, b. 1954
Kerry Greenwood was born in Footscray, Melbourne, and still lives there today. Best known for her Phryne Fisher crime novels set in Melbourne in the 1920s, she has also written plays, science fiction, non-fiction and historical novels for adults and younger readers. The Delphic Women trilogy, Cassandra (1995), Electra (1996) and Medea (1997), reinterprets the stories of three figures from classical mythology.
Greenwood graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1979 with Arts and Law degrees. In 1982 she was admitted to the bar, and prior to becoming a professional writer worked as a barrister and solicitor for the Supreme Court of Victoria and as a criminal defence lawyer for Victorian Legal Aid. She continues to practice as a solicitor for Legal Aid.
Danger – Do Not Enter is her third young adult book featuring teenagers Penelope Thanatopoulos and Benjamin Thorpe, and is part of the Crime Waves series, a collection of young adult crime stories by Australian writers. The Three-Pronged Dagger (2001), Greenwood’s first Penelope and Ben mystery, won a Sisters in Crime Davitt Award in 2002.
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Official website (accessed: July 2, 2018).
Bio prepared by Miriam Riverlea, University of New England, mriverlea@gmail.com
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