Garry Disher
Garry Disher grew up in South Australia. In 1978 he was awarded a creative writing fellowship to Stanford University, where he wrote his first short-story collection. A full-time writer for many years, he is the author of more than forty titles—fiction, children's books, anthologies, history textbooks, books about the craft of writing, and the Wyatt thrillers. The first Detective Inspector Challis murder mystery, The Dragon Man, won the German Crime Fiction Critics Prize 2002 and was published in the UK in 2006 by Bitter Lemon Press.
