Malcolm Knox was born in Sydney in 1966. He was chief cricket correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald for three years and has written on cricket for several publications around the world. As a journalist he won a Walkley award in 2004 for the exposé of fraudulent author Norma Khouri. He was named as one of 2000’s Best Young Novelists by The Sydney Morning Herald for Summerland. A Private Man won the 2005 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Fiction. It was also shortlisted for the 2004 Victorian Premier’s Prize, the 2004 Colin Roderick Award, the 2005 NSW Premier’s Prize, the 2004 Tasmanian Pacific Fiction Prize, and longlisted for the 2005 Miles Franklin Award and the 2006 Dublin Impac Award.
