Susanna De Vries
Susanna de Vries is the author more than 15 books, most about women in history, including Desert Queen: The Many Lives and Loves of Daisy Bates , Great Pioneer Women of the Outback , Heroic Australian Women in War and To Hell and Back . Her book Blue Ribbons, Bitter Bread: The Life of Joice NanKivell Loch , an acclaimed biography of Australia's most decorated woman, won Ireland's Sligo Non-fiction Prize and was short-listed for the Queensland Premier's Non-Fiction Award. An art historian by...See more
Susanna de Vries is the author more than 15 books, most about women in history, including Desert Queen: The Many Lives and Loves of Daisy Bates , Great Pioneer Women of the Outback , Heroic Australian Women in War and To Hell and Back . Her book Blue Ribbons, Bitter Bread: The Life of Joice NanKivell Loch , an acclaimed biography of Australia's most decorated woman, won Ireland's Sligo Non-fiction Prize and was short-listed for the Queensland Premier's Non-Fiction Award. An art historian by training, Susanna was made a Member of the order of Australia in 1996 for services to art and literature. See less
