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Biography
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 includeda six-month residency at the Keesing Studio in Paris.
She is currently writing a biography of architect Harry Seidler for Murdoch Books.
Articles
- Search for the Duck of Doom, 29 November 2008, Sydney Morning Herald
- Words don't come easy, 29/05/2003 Sydney Morning Herald