Australian author of (among many other works) The Man Who Loved Children (1940), a novel based on the dysfunctional family in which she herself grew up. Although this work has repeatedly been named as one of the best fictions of the century (e.g., in TIME magazine, 2005) and in 2010 was described by the novelist Jonathan Franzen as a "masterpiece," it is not as widely known as it deserves to be.
