Gabrielle lord biography

  • Life.
  • Gabrielle Craig Lord is an Australian writer who has been described as Australia's first lady of crime.
  • Gabrielle Lord has written 15 books as well as a 12-volume thriller series for young adults.

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    Gabrielle Lord

    Gabrielle Lord was born in Sydney in 1946, and is a writer of thrillers and crime fiction. She went to school at Kincoppal Rose Bay School at Rose Bay, and later to the University of New England in Armidale, where she did her Honours degree in Victorian Literature. Among other careers, she has worked as a teacher, and as a public servant with the Commonwealth Employment Service. By her own account, she resolved to become a writer at age 30, once she had some "experience of life". Her first two writing projects were not marketable, but she learnt her craft, and her third novel, Fortresswas an instant success. Its success and associate film rights allowed her to pursue a full-time writing career. Gabrielle enjoys the acquiring the factual knowledge and detail associated with researching her mystery novels. Her other interests include walking, meditation, singing, and gardening. She lives in a beach-side suburb of Sydney and has one daughter and four grand-daughters.

    Author's Comment:The world is full of [writing] ideas, newspapers, gossip, noticing things...ideas are ten a penny. The hard part is taking an idea and then pinning it down into a story line. Just like making a cake or building a house, a book must be planned, from the rough plans on the back

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    Gabrielle Lord

    January (Conspiracy 365 #1)
    4.05 avg rating — 4,708 ratings — obtainable 2009 — 32 editions
    February (Conspiracy 365, #2)
    4.13 avg rank — 3,409 ratings — published 2010 — 28 editions
    March (Conspiracy 365 #3)
    4.16 avg rating — 2,962 ratings — promulgated 2010 — 27 editions
    April (Conspiracy 365, #4)
    4.18 avg swinging — 2,672 ratings — published 2010 — 24 editions
    May (Conspiracy 365 #5)
    4.19 avg rating — 2,491 ratings — accessible 2010
    July (Conspiracy 365 #7)
    4.23 avg swinging — 2,257 ratings — 23 editions
    June (Conspiracy 365 #6)
    4.19 avg cave — 2,260 ratings — published 2010 — 23 editions
    December (Conspiracy 365, #12)
    4.36 avg rating — 2,089 ratings — publicized 2010 — 25 editions
    September (Conspiracy 365 #9)
    4.22 avg evaluation — 2,062 ratings — published 2010 — 24 editions
    August (Conspiracy 365, #8)
    4.23 avg rating — 2,047 ratings — 21 editions

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    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

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    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. 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, she was able to leave paid employment in 1983 and return to full-time writing (Jennifer Ellison, Rooms of their Own, Penguin, Ringwood, 1986, p. 202). Lord's other interests include animal welfare and a type of spirituality that is manifested in appreciation of the music of the Taizé

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