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Australian crime writer

Susan Dorothy Geason (born 1946) is an Australian writer of fiction and non-fiction for adults and teenagers.

Born in New Norfolk, Tasmania, to Urban James and Joan Susan (née Oakford) Geason,[1] she grew up in Queensland and graduated from the University of Queensland with a BA in History and Politics. While living in Canada, she completed a master’s degree in Political Theory at the University of Toronto.[2]

From 1979 to 1980 Geason was a Legislative Researcher in the Parliamentary Library, Canberra, and from 1980 to 1981 was education editor of The National Times.

From March 1982 to 1985 Geason was a policy officer in the Cabinet Office of the NSW Premier’s Department.[3][4]

From 1985 to 1987, she was head of Information and Publications with the NSW State Pollution Control Commission.

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From 1991 to 1997, Geason was literary editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.

Since 1987, she has worked as a freelance writer, editor and communications consultant.

The State Library of New South Wales holds the Susan Geason papers, 1989-2001, relating to the books she was writing at that time and comprising correspondence, draft manuscripts, interview notes, book plans, news clippings, research and photographs.[5]

Geason was awarded a PhD in creative writing by the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland in 2005 for her thesis, “Under the Canopy of Heaven : Charlotte Brontë and Mary Taylor; What Mary Knew : The Relationship Between Mary Taylor and Charlotte Brontë”. It was published as What Mary Knew : Mary Taylor and Charlotte Brontë in 2011.[6]

Publications[edit]

Adult Fiction

Crime Fiction

Teenage Fiction and Non-Fiction

  • Great Australian Girls and the Remarkable Women They Became, ABC Books, 1999, ISBN 9780733307584
  • Australian Heroines: Stories of Courage and Survival, ABC Books, 2001, ISBN 0733309666
  • Death of a Princess, Little Hare Books, 2005, ISBN 9781877003905
  • Rebel Girl: A Tale of Friendship and Survival in Taiping China, ABC Books, 2007, ISBN 9780733321733
  • All Fall Down, Little Hare Books, 2005, ISBN 1877003867; Large print edition ReadHowYouWant, 2008
  • Flight of the Falcon, Little Hare Books, 2006, ISBN 1921049367; Large print edition ReadHowYouWant, 2009

Non-Fiction

  • Regarding Jane Eyre, (editor and contributor), Random House, 1997, ISBN 0091835038
  • Pitt Water People : The Ivers, Young, Gould, Cashman and Lahey Families in Tasmania, Susan Geason, 2010, ISBN 9780980787900
  • What Mary Knew : Mary Taylor & Charlotte Brontë, Susan Geason, 2011, ISBN 9780980787955
  • People of the Plains: The Young, Gould, Cashman, Lahey, Geason and Beven Families in Tasmania, Susan Geason, 2nd ed., 2011, ISBN 9780980787931
  • River Folk: The Latham, Griggs, Corbett, Oakford, Darcy and O’Connor Families in Tasmania, Susan Geason, 2nd ed., 2011, ISBN 9780980787924
  • A Long Way from Tipperary: The Geason, Beven, Evans and Lynch Families in Tasmania, Susan Geason, 2nd ed., 2011, ISBN 9780987235701

Stories in Anthologies and Magazines

  • An Old Husband’s Tale in More Crimes for a Summer Christmas, ed. Stephen Knight, Allen & Unwin, 1991, ISBN 9781863731065
  • Aint Misbehavin’ in Killing Women: Rewriting Detective Fiction (essays on feminism and the PI genre), ed. Delys Bird, Angus & Robertson, 1993, ISBN 0207179484
  • Conflict of Interest in Moonlight Becomes You: Crimes for Summer 6, ed. Jean Bedford, Allen & Unwin, 1995, ISBN 1863739963
  • Sybilla of the Fires in Overland Vol. 138, Autumn 1995
  • Totally Devoted in Shadow Alley (crime for teenagers), compiled by Lucy Sussex, Omnibus Books, 1995, ISBN 1862912408
  • Green Murder in Women on the Case, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte, 1996, ISBN 0385314019; & Virago, 1996, ISBN 1860491049
  • Geason has had stories published in Australian Penthouse, Billy Blue Magazine, The Sun-Herald, Tages Anzeiger (Zurich), Australasian Post

Crime Prevention

  • Crime Prevention: Theory and Practice, (Paul R. Wilson, co-author), Australian Institute of Criminology, 1988, ISBN 0642135576
  • Designing Out Crime: Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, (Paul R. Wilson, co-author), Australian Institute of Criminology, 1989, ISBN 0642143072
  • Preventing Car Theft and Crime in Car Parks, (Paul R. Wilson, co-author), Australian Institute of Criminology, 1990, ISBN 0642149399
  • Preventing Graffiti and Vandalism, (Paul R. Wilson, co-author), Australian Institute of Criminology, 1990, ISBN 0642149364
  • Preventing Retail Crime, (Paul R. Wilson, co-author), Australian Institute of Criminology, 1992, ISBN 0642170479

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