Gabrielle Williams (author)

Gabrielle Eve Williams (20 August 1963 – 21 January 2023)[1] was an Australian author of young adult fiction.

Her 2015 novel The Guy, The Girl, the Artist & his Ex was loosely based on the 1986 theft of Picasso's painting The Weeping Woman.

[5] To develop the time travel elements in her 2021 novel It's Not You, It's Me, Williams researched both metaphysics and mysticism.

[6] This work was nominated for Best Young Adult Novel at the 2022 Aurealis Awards, which recognises the best in Australian speculative fiction.

[2][6] On 16 January 2023, Williams suffered a stroke at a Readings Bookstore in Melbourne, Victoria, and was taken to hospital.