Danielle Clode

Danielle Clode is an Australian author of literary non-fiction, history and children's books.[1][2]

Life

Clode was born in Adelaide in 1968 and spent her early years in Port Lincoln, South Australia. She later lived on a boat with her parents travelling around Australia and completing her schooling by correspondence.[3]

Career

Clode studied politics and psychology at University of Adelaide before completed her PhD in Zoology as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University.[4] She has taught creative and professional writing at universities across Australia and is an associate at Melbourne University and Flinders University.[4]

Distinctions

Clode has received the Rhodes Scholarship (South Australia, 1990), the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-fiction in 2007,[1] a Whitley Award for Best Popular Zoology book in 2017 and was short-listed for a Children’s Book Council Award in 2010 and 2016[3] as well as numerous writing fellowships. Clode's 2018 biography of Australian naturalist Edith Coleman, The Wasp and the Orchid, was shortlisted for the 2019 National Biography Award.[5]

Bibliography

Some of her books are:[6]

gollark: TPS lag
gollark: Canvases! The bottom one was meant to be blue and I don't know *why* that happened!
gollark: I've made a worrying discovery. OC lets you make unbreakable blocks.
gollark: There are no vehicle mods *on here*.
gollark: The best you can do vehicle-wise is... horses with neural interfaces, or maybe minecarts?

References
  1. "Danielle Clode". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 2017-03-20.
  2. Danielle Clode on a rare partnership between man and killer whale, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2016-07-15, retrieved 2017-03-20
  3. "Danielle Clode - Booked Out Speakers Agency". Booked Out Speakers Agency. Retrieved 2017-03-20.
  4. "Flinders University". www.flinders.edu.au. Retrieved 2017-03-20.
  5. "The Wasp And The Orchid: The Remarkable Life of Australian Naturalist Edith Coleman by Danielle Clode". State Library of NSW. 2019-06-18. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
  6. "Danielle Clode". goodreads.com. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
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