Helen O'Neill is a

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-nominated

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n freelance journalist and author. Born and educated in the

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, O'Neill worked as a newspaper and TV journalist in Australia, the

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and the United Kingdom and is now an Australian resident. O'Neill was awarded an Australian Literary Council Grant in 2009 which included a six-month residency at the Keesing Studio in Paris.

Publications

Her first book, ''Life Without Limits'', is a biography of David Pescud, a dyslexic who pioneered Sailors with Disabilities. O'Neill is best known as author of ''Florence Broadhurst: Her Secret and Extraordinary Lives'', which details the life and art of the famous wallpaper and fabric designer

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, whose death remains a mystery. The book was shortlisted for a Walkley Award in 2006. The Australian department store David Jones commissioned O'Neill to write ''David Jones – 175 Years,'' whose publication in 2013 celebrated the retailer's 175th anniversary. ''A Singular Vision: Harry Seidler,'' her biography of architect

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appeared in 2014. It was short-listed that same year for the Australian Book Design Awards, and, in 2015, for the Australian National Biography Awards. O'Neill's most recent publication ''Daffodil – Biography of a Flower'' appeared in 2017.

Articles

''Search for the Duck of Doom''
29 November 2008, ''

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''Words don't come easy''
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Bibliography

* ''Life Without Limits'', Random House, Sydney, 2003 * ''Florence Broadhurst – Her Secret and Extraordinary Lives'', Hardie Grant, Sydney, 2006 * ''David Jones – 175 Years'', NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, 2013 * ''A Singular Vision: Harry Seidler,'' HarperCollins, Sydney, 2014 * ''Daffodil – Biography of a Flower,'' HarperCollins, Sydney, 2017

References

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