Chloe Hooper


Chloe Melisande Hooper is an Australian author.
Her first novel, A Child's Book of True Crime, 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 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.

Books

A Child's Book of True Crime The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island The Engagement The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire Bedtime Story
  • ''The Mushroom Tapes''

Awards and recognition

Hooper was a recipient of a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship, an award of given to mid-career creatives and thought leaders.