Helen O'Neill is a Walkley Award-nominated Australian freelance journalist and author.
[1] O'Neill was awarded an Australian Literary Council Grant in 2009 which included a six-month residency at the Keesing Studio in Paris.
[2] Her first book, Life Without Limits, is a biography of David Pescud, a dyslexic who pioneered Sailors with Disabilities.
O'Neill is best known as author of Florence Broadhurst: Her Secret and Extraordinary Lives, which details the life and art of the famous wallpaper and fabric designer Florence Broadhurst, whose death remains a mystery.
O'Neill's most recent publication Daffodil – Biography of a Flower appeared in 2017.