Libby Gleeson
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Libby Gleeson (b. 1950) is an Australian children's author. Born in Young, New South Wales, she is one of six children, the sister of former ABC TV Washington Correspondent Michael Gleeson and the mother of Home and Away actress Jessica Tovey.
She studied at the University of Sydney before teaching for two years in the rural town of Picton near Sydney. In the mid-1970s she lived for five years in Italy and the United Kingdom, where she began to write her first novel, Eleanor Elizabeth.
In the last twenty years, she has written twenty books and taught occasional courses in creative writing. She specialises in picture books, novels for young kids and also novels for slightly older readers. She's also written scripts for the ABC's Bananas in Pyjamas and Magic Mountain. She is married to scientist Euan Tovey, has three adult daughters and lives in Sydney's inner west.
