Australian author Kerry Greenwood has died at age 70. The playwright, lawyer and novelist was best known for her Phryne Fisher novels, a historical crime series set in Melbourne that was adapted into the hugely popular television series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries.
Kerry Greenwood pictured in 2016.Credit:
In 2020, she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to literature as a writer.
In a post on Monday morning, her husband, David Greagg, confirmed Greenwood’s death on her official Facebook page, writing that the funeral was yesterday and that the writer was “given a suitably royal send-off”.
Greenwood, who lived in Seddon, in Melbourne’s west, died on March 26, but Greagg wrote that the news has been deliberately kept quiet.
“I have been grieving quietly as well as organising things. Her condition had deteriorated to the point where I could not keep her at home any longer. The end was mercifully quick thereafter. Kerry was an extremely private person and had no wish to share her pain with anyone. I told everyone after the wake that they could now post anything they liked, and they have done so. So I will stay silent no longer. Yes, she has gone. But she lives on in her books, and in our hearts. I will post more when I feel up to it. Please give me a little space for now. Thank you”
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