Sue Williams is an award-winning journalist, travel writer and best-selling author. She's now written 23 books, mostly non-fiction.

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; The Girl Who Climbed Everest, and a number of books about Australian outback characters.

Sue, originally from the UK but now living in Australia for 30 years, has also spent much of her life travelling in Africa, and wrote one book based mostly there, Getting There: Journeys of an Accidental Adventurer. She returns regularly.