Heather Rossiter

Heather Rossiter is a scientist, writer and traveller who lives in Sydney. She is the author of Lady Spy, Gentleman Explorer: The life of Herbert Dyce Murphy and Mawson’s Forgotten Men: The 1911–1913 diary of Charles Turnbull Harrisson, while her articles, book reviews and travel pieces have appeared in Australian and overseas newspapers and magazines. Besides studying Eastern and Oriental Art in Oxford and Islamic monuments at UCLA, Heather Rossiter has travelled extensively in North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. In 2001 at Susa, Iran, she was captivated by Jane Dieulafoy’s story.