Pip Williams (author)

Pip Williams was born in London, England in 1969. Her Brazilian mother worked part-time as a hairdresser and her Welsh father was a computer analyst, who also wrote children's books and jokes, and was a feminist. Pip moved with her parents and younger sister to Sydney, New South Wales, in 1972. She loved reading, and her favourite book was The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, but she read slowly, and learnt at the age of 17 that she was dyslexic. At 18, she wanted to be a fashion designer. ==Career==

Williams worked as a social researcher at the Centre for Work and Life at the University of South Australia, where her manager was economist Barbara Pocock, later senator for the Australian Greens. She did some radio production for produced for Radio Northern Beaches, and started publishing creative non-fiction in and The Australian and InDaily, in the 2010s, working on organic farms, It was well-reviewed, sold well, and won several awards, including General Fiction Book of the Year in the Australian Book Industry Awards and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction A stage adaptation followed, and a TV series is being made of the novel. Williams' second novel is The Bookbinder of Jericho, which she started writing before Dictionary was published. and is described as a companion to the first novel. Both of Williams' novels were based on very thorough research, and full of minute details. She says that she could not have written the novels without having had experience as a researcher. She visited Oxford three times to garner the background needed for her novels. ==Personal life==

Williams met her partner, Shannon, when she was 19, and they have two sons. They moved from Sydney to a hobby farm in the Adelaide Hills in 2003, but found after some years (while Williams was working in the city) that they were "hopeless at it". They then took the boys out of school and went Italy for six months to work as WWOOFers (Willing Workers on Organic Farms), working in Tuscany, Calabria, and Piedmont. As of 2024 Williams lives in the Adelaide Hills, and often writes in the cafes in Hills towns. She describes herself as an introvert, who never likes being the centre of attention. She has dyslexia and dysgraphia. ==Bibliography==