Helen O'Neill is a Walkley award-nominated Australian freelance journalist and author. Born and educated in the UK, O'Neill worked as a newspaper and TV journalist in Australia, the US and the UK and is now an Australian resident.
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 Florence Broadhurst, whose death remains a mystery. The book was shortlisted for a Walkley award in 2006.
O'Neill was awarded an Australian Literary Council Grant in 2009 which included a six-month residency at the Keesing Studio in Paris. [1]
She is currently writing a biography of architect Harry Seidler for Murdoch Books.