Kerry Greenwood
Kerry Greenwood
Kerry Isabelle Greenwoodis an Australian author and lawyer. She has written many plays and books, most notably a string of historical detective novels centred on the character of Phryne Fisher. She writes mysteries, science-fiction, historical fiction, and children's stories, as well as plays. She is unmarried but lives with a "registered wizard"...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 June 1954
CountryAustralia
buy seen time victoria
In the 1970s, I used to buy opals and moonstones at the Queen Victoria Market, which were seen as old-fashioned and too heavy at the time.
ballet city love taken time
I've always been in love with Melbourne. When I was 12, I was taken into the city by my grandmother to go to the ballet for the first time.
duty fix front life
I'm a duty solicitor, so I can't fix someone's life; all I can do is fix the problem I've got in front of my eyes.
criminal determined
I was determined to become a criminal lawyer and help look after the poor.
shooting trying war zone
I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back.
I liked the Ballarat train as a child.
love
I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read.
books since tried
I have been reading crime books ever since I was a child, but I had never tried to write one.
I don't steal stories. If I'm a plagiarist, so is Hitchcock. And Tolkien. And Shakespeare.
arbiter indicator money terribly
Clothes were terribly important in the '20s. They really were an arbiter of who you were and how much money you had: an indicator of social status.
intensely interested visitors
As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am.
war
The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read.
gets hanging hard large nine onto point seven
Sometimes it's hard to start, but once it gets going, once you reach the tipping point - usually between chapter seven and nine - then it's like hanging onto a large snowball as it hurtles downhill.
archeology fell histories love myths
I fell in love with words in all languages, and I read everything I could find, particularly myths and legends and histories and archeology and any novels.