Helen O'Neill (journalist)

Helen O'Neill is a Walkley Award-nominated Australian freelance journalist and author. Born and educated in the United Kingdom, O'Neill worked as a newspaper and TV journalist in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom and is now an Australian resident.

Publications

Her first book, Life Without Limits, is a biography of David Pescud, a dyslexic who pioneered Sailors with Disabilities. O'Neill is best known as author of Florence Broadhurst: Her Secret and Extraordinary Lives, which details the life and art of the famous wallpaper and fabric designer Florence Broadhurst, whose death remains a mystery. The book was shortlisted for a Walkley Award in 2006.

O'Neill was awarded an Australian Literary Council Grant in 2009 which included a six-month residency at the Keesing Studio in Paris.[1]

She is currently writing a biography of architect Harry Seidler for Murdoch Books.

Articles

Bibliography
  • Life Without Limits, Random House, Sydney, 2003 ISBN 9781863253734
  • Florence Broadhurst – Her Secret and Extraordinary Lives, Hardie Grant, Sydney, 2006

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 March 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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