Danielle Clode
Danielle Clode is an Australian author of literary non-fiction, history and children's books.Life
Clode was born in Adelaide in 1968 and spent her early years in Port Lincoln, South Australia. She later lived on a boat with her parents travelling around Australia and completing her schooling by correspondence.Career
Clode studied politics and psychology at University of Adelaide before completed her PhD in Zoology as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. She has taught creative and professional writing at universities across Australia and is an associate at Melbourne University and Flinders University.Distinctions
Clode has received the Rhodes Scholarship, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-fiction in 2007, a Whitley Award for Best Popular Zoology book in 2017 and was short-listed for a Children’s Book Council Award in 2010 and 2016 as well as numerous writing fellowships. Clode's 2018 biography of Australian naturalist Edith Coleman, The Wasp and the Orchid, was shortlisted for the 2019 National Biography Award.
