Nikki Gemmell
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Nikki Gemmell (born in 1967 in Wollongong, New South Wales) is an Australian author, best known for anonymously writing the best-selling erotic novel The Bride Stripped Bare.
Gemmell worked as a radio journalist for ABC Radio in Darwin, Northern Territory, and wrote three novels: Shiver, Cleave and Love Song, before the 2004 publication of The Bride Stripped Bare, which became a bestseller in Australia, the United Kingdom and France. Although published anonymously, Gemmell was soon identified at the author. In France she has been described variously as a "female Jack Kerouac".
Gemmell currently lives in West London with her husband and two children.
She has worked as a producer for the BBC World Service and in 2003 wrote a weekly column for the Mail on Sunday in London. The columns formed the basis of her latest book, a compendium called Pleasure: An Almanac for the Heart, published in 2006 in the UK and Australia.
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Interview transcript: Nikki Gemmell, Enough Rope with Andrew Denton, ABC TV, 28 July 2005.
- Beck, Chris: Pleasure of the next text, The Age, December 10, 2006.
- Review of The Bride Stripped Bare
