Jane Harper

Jane Harper was born in 1980 in Manchester, England. At age eight, she and her family moved to Australia, and she eventually became an Australian citizen. She returned to the UK to study at the University of Kent and start her career as a journalist before returning to Australia. After working as a journalist for several more years, she submitted a short story to the fiction edition of a major Australian magazine and was chosen as a winner. Soon after publishing that story, she published her first novel, The Dry, which launched her career as a mystery writer. So far, Harper has published four more novels, two of which feature Falk, the protagonist of The Dry. A film adaptation of The Dry premiered in 2020. Harper currently lives in Melbourne with her husband and two children.