Anthony O'Neill is an Australian fiction novelist.
[1] His father was a policeman[2] and his mother, from whom he inherited a 'rich strain of Scottish blood',[3] was a stenographer.
[2] Educated at the Christian Brothers College in St Kilda, he went straight into the workforce after school and devoted himself to his passion, writing.
[4] In October 2014, 20th Century Fox preemptively purchased the film rights to his unpublished science fiction novel The Dark Side.
[5][6][7][8] O'Neill has lived now for a number of years in Edinburgh which he has called 'a deliriously atmospheric city - for me the most stimulating in the world.