Biography gabrielle lord

Australian writer

Gabrielle Craig Lord (born 1946) is an Australian writer who has been described as Australia's first lady of crime.^[1] She has published a wide range of writing including reviews, articles, short stories and non-fiction, but she is best known for her psychological thrillers.

Life

Gabrielle Lord was born in Sydney. She was educated at Kincoppal Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart and the University of New England in Armidale, where she obtained an Honours degree in Victorian Literature.

She worked as a teacher and as a public servant with the Commonwealth Employment Service.

Biography gabrielle lord of flies

In 1978, with the support of a New Writer's Fellowship, she took a year off work to write full-time. The novel she wrote during the bulk of that time, A Death in the Family, received a bad reader's report, so Lord put it aside and in the remaining three weeks of her year off wrote Fortress.

It was an instant success and, with the money from the film rights