Danielle Clode

Danielle Clode (born 1968) is an Australian author of literary nonfiction, history and children's books. She is an associate professor of creative writing at Flinders University.

Clode was born in Adelaide in 1968 and spent her early years in Port Lincoln, South Australia. She later lived on a boat with her parents travelling around Australia and completing her schooling by correspondence.

Clode received her B.A. at the University of Adelaide in 1989 and her D.Phil. in zoology at the University of Oxford in 1993.

Career Clode worked at Melbourne University and the Victorian Writers Centre.

Awards and honors Clode was a Rhodes Scholar in 1990.

Clode's 2018 biography of Australian naturalist Edith Coleman, The Wasp and the Orchid, was shortlisted for the 2019 National Biography Award. In Search of the Woman Who Sailed the World was shortlisted for the 2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Nonfiction Award.