Sue Williams

Sue Williams is an award-winning journalist, travel writer and best-selling author. She has developed a writing style that tells a story as evocatively as possible, with a keen eye for detail. She's now written 26 books, mostly non-fiction. Sue's previous biographies include Mean Streets, Kind Heart: The Father Chris Riley Story; Father Bob: The larrikin priest; The Last Showman: Fred Brophy; No Time For Fear: Paul de Gelder; Peter Ryan: The inside story; Death of a Doctor; The Girl Who Climbed Everest, Healing Lives, Daughter of the River Country and a number of books about outback characters. Other books are about travel, true crime and genetics, while she has also had a children's book published and an historical novel based on the early colonial days of Australia, Elizabeth & Elizabeth. Her book Healing Lives, about acclaimed obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr Catherine Hamlin and the patient whose life she saved, Mamitu Gashe, who's now become one of the world's leading fistula surgeons herself, was shortlisted for the Australian Christian Book of the Year in 2021.