Popular nonfiction authors

Robyn Annear is the author of several nonfiction books about Melbourne history and culture.

Maxine Beneba Clarke is an award winning Australian poet and writer of fiction for adults and children.

Rachel Cusk is an award winning British novelist and memoirist, whose work explores identity and feminity, while subverting typical narrative forms. She's best known for her Outline trilogy: Outline, Transit and Kudos.

Anna Funder is one of Australia’s most acclaimed and awarded writers, whose books Stasiland and All That I Am are prize-winning international bestsellers.

Richard Flanagan has been described by the Washington Post as 'one of our greatest living novelists'. He has been recognised by some of the world's most prestigious literary awards, including the Man Booker Prize and the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.

Helen Garner is a beloved and critically acclaimed Australian writer of novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction.

Roxanne Gay is a bestselling and critically acclaimed writer of essays and short stories, best known for her groundbreaking essay collection Bad Feminist.

Professor and acclaimed journalist, Stan Grant, is the author of bestselling books on identity and Australian Indigenous history.

bell hooks was an influential American scholar and activist whose work examined the connections between race, gender and class.

Naomi Klein is the award-winning author of international bestsellers including This Changes Everything, The Shock Doctrine, No Logo, No Is Not Enough and On Fire.

Marcia Langton is an Aboriginal Australian writer, academic and activist and the Foundation Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne.

Bri Lee is an Australian author, journalist and activist, best known for her 2018 memoir Eggshell Skull. In 2024 she released her first novel, The Work.

David Marr is an Australian journalist, author, and political and social commentator.

Bruce Pascoe is a renowned Aboriginal Australian writer of literary fiction and nonfiction, best known for his groundbreaking work Dark Emu.

David Foster Wallace was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and university professor, best known for his essay collections and the novel Infinite Jest.