Helen O'Neill (journalist)
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Helen O'Neill is a Walkley award-nominated Australian freelance journalist and author. Born and educated in the UK, O'Neill worked as a newspaper and TV journalist in Australia, the US and the UK and is now an Australian resident.
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 included a six-month residency at the Keesing Studio in Paris.
She is currently writing a biography of architect Harry Seidler
for Murdoch Books.
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
Florence Broadhurst
Florence Maud Broadhurst was an Australian designer and businesswoman whose 1977 murder remains a mystery.- Biography :...
, 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 included a six-month residency at the Keesing Studio in Paris.
She is currently writing a biography of architect Harry Seidler
Harry Seidler
Harry Seidler, AC OBE was an Austrian-born Australian architect who is considered to be one of the leading exponents of Modernism's methodology in Australia and the first architect to fully express the principles of the Bauhaus in Australia.Harry Seidler designed more than 180 buildings and he...
for Murdoch Books.
Articles
- Search for the Duck of Doom, November 29, 2008, Sydney Morning Herald
- Words don't come easy, 29/05/2003 Sydney Morning Herald