Author Bio
• Birth—July 24, 1948
• Where—Perth, Western Australia
• Education—B.A., University of Western Australia
• Awards—Age Book of The Year (Australian) (twice)
• Currently—lives in Fremantle, Western Australia
Joan London is also the author of two collections of stories, Letter to Constantine and Sister Ships.
She has twice won The Age Book of The Year Award for Fiction, for Gilgamesh and for her story collection, Sister Ships. Gilgamesh was also a finalist for the New South Wales Premier's Christina Stead Prize and the Western Australian Premier's Award for Fiction. It was also short-listed for the Miles Franklin Literary Award with Tim Winton's Dirt Music and Richard Flanagan's Gould's Book of Fish.
The Good Parents, her second novel, was published in 2008. (From Wikipedia and the publisher.)