Anne Henderson

Anne Elizabeth Henderson, (née Keppel; born 1949) is an Australian writer, deputy director of The Sydney Institute, editor of the institute's The Sydney Papers and co-editor of The Sydney Institute Quarterly.

Henderson was born in Melbourne and now lives in Sydney. She was educated at the University of Melbourne. Between 1971 and 1989 she worked as a teacher for seventeen years in several Australian states. She is married to Gerard Henderson, the executive director of the Sydney Institute.

Literary career Anne Henderson is the author of Getting Even: Women MPs on Life, Power and Politics , From All Corners: Six Migrant Stories, and Mary MacKillop's Sisters: A Life Unveiled.

Henderson also writes occasionally for The Australian, The Canberra Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the Australian Book Review, and The Australians Review of Books.

At the 2015 Australia Day Honours, Henderson was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to literature in the field of political history, and to the community by fostering public debate and discussion.