Jessica Anderson

Jessica Anderson was born in Gayndah, Queensland, in 1916 and has lived most of her life in Sydney, other than a few years in London. She started her career as a novelist rather later in life than most, although she has previously written short stories for newspapers and novel dramatisations for radio.

Anderson has won the Miles Franklin Award twice; for Tirra Lirra By the River in 1978, and for The Impersonators in 1980. Stories from the Warm Zone won The Age Book of the Year Award in 1987.