Chloe Hooper is an Australian author. She is known for her 2008 non-fiction work, The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island

Early life and education

Chloe Hooper was born in Melbourne, Victoria.[citation needed]

She attended Lauriston Girls' School, and then the University of Melbourne and Columbia University.[citation needed]

Career

Hooper's first novel, A Child's Book of True Crime (2002), was short-listed for the Orange Prize for Literature and was a New York Times Notable Book.[citation needed]

In 2005, she turned to reportage and the next year won a Walkley Award for her writing on the 2004 Palm Island death in custody case.[citation needed] The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008) is a non-fiction account of the same case.

Her 2018 book, The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire, published in the United States by Seven Stories Press in 2020, investigates the Black Saturday bushfires, one of the most devastating wildfires in Australian history.[citation needed]

Awards and recognition

Hooper was a recipient of a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship, an award of A$160,000 given to mid-career creatives and thought leaders.

Books

  • A Child's Book of True Crime (2002)
  • The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008) (released as Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee in the USA)
  • The Engagement (2012)
  • The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire (2018)
  • Bedtime Story (2022)
  • The Mushroom Tapes (2025; with Helen Garner and Sarah Krasnostein)

External links

  • in The Monthly
  • at the Sydney Writers Festival (video)
  • Potter, Emily (2004). . JASAL. 3: 95–102. ISSN.