Greenwood, Kerry: - Kerry Greenwood was born in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray and after wandering far and wide, she returned to live there.
In 2003 Kerry won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Australian Association..
Kerry says that as long as people want to read them, she can keep writing them.
Kerry has written twenty books in this series with no sign yet of Miss Fisher hanging up her pearl-handled pistol.
The Phryne Fisher series (pronounced Fry-knee, to rhyme with briny) began in 1989 with Cocaine Blues which was a great success.
Kerry has written three series, a number of plays, including The Troubadours with Stephen D\'Arcy, is an award-winning children\'s writer and has edited and contributed to several anthologies.
She has degrees in English and Law from Melbourne University and was admitted to the legal profession on the 1st April 1982, a day which she finds both soothing and significant.
Greenwood, Kerry: - Kerry Greenwood was born in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray and after wandering far and wide, she returned to live there