Lee Ann Tulloch is an Australian-born journalist and author. She was born in Melbourne, and has a degree in English Literature from Melbourne University. She has worked as a researcher in federal politics. She was arts features editor for Vogue Australia from 1978 to 1982, and editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar Australia. After moving to New York in 1985, she wrote her first novel, Fabulous Nobodies, which was published in 1989. With her photographer husband, Anthony Amos, she chose a bohemian life, moving between Australia, New York and Paris for more than a decade with their young daughter, Lolita. In Paris, she began her second novel, Wraith, a gothic tale of a dead supermodel who comes back to haunt her personal assistant. She completed it in New York and it was published in 1999. In 2001 she published her third novel, Two Shanes, a comedy of errors about an Australian surfer in Manhattan. On 11 September 2001 she was evacuated from her Tribeca home and left her beloved Manhattan for the relative peace of a Sydney beach. Her fourth novel, The Cutting, a murder mystery set on the Australian coast, was published in 2003. 

January 12th, 1954 in Melbourne (Age 70)