Katherine Scholes

Katherine Anne Scholes (born 5 July 1959) is an Australian writer.^[1]

She was born on 5 July 1959^[2] in the Dodoma Region of Tanzania where her parents were English missionaries, and spent most of her childhood there before moving to England and then Tasmania, where she currently lives.^[3]

Scholes is the author of the international bestsellers Make Me An Idol, The Rain Queen and The Stone Angel. She has also written several children's books including the acclaimed Peacetimes, The Boy and the Whale and a young adult novel The Blue Chameleon, which won a New South Wales State Literary Award. Her books have been translated into numerous languages. Scholes has also worked in the film industry.

Her husband was the filmmaker Roger Scholes (1950–2022).