Chloe Hooper
Genres
- History
- > Australia & Oceania History
- > Australia & New Zealand History
- Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
- > Mystery
- > Thriller & Suspense
- > Crime
- > Thrillers & Suspense
- > Crime Thrillers
- > Murder Thrillers
- > Psychological Thrillers
- Politics & Social Sciences
- > Anthropology
- > General Anthropology
- > Social Sciences
- > Criminology
Chloe Hooper is an Australian author. Her 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. In 2005, she turned to reportage and the next year won a Walkley Award for her writing on the death in custody of Cameron Doomadgee on Palm Island, an Aboriginal community off the north-east coast of Australia. The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008) is a non-fiction account of the 2004 Palm Island death in custody case.