Chloe Hooper

Her first novel, ''A Child's Book of True Crime'' (2002), was short-listed for the Orange Prize for Literature and was a ''New York Times'' Notable Book. In 2005, she turned to reportage and the next year won a Walkley Award for her writing on the 2004 Palm Island death in custody case. ''The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island'' (2008) is a non-fiction account of the same case. Her 2018 book, ''The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire'', published in the United States by Seven Stories Press in 2020, investigates the Black Saturday bushfires, one of the most devastating wildfires in Australian history. Provided by Wikipedia