Peter Corris Biography

Peter Robert Corris (born 8 May 1942, Stawell, Victoria)) is an Australian academic, historian, journalist and a novelist of historical and crime fiction. As crime fiction writer, he has been described as "the Godfather of contemporary Australian crime-writing". In January 2017, Corris announced that he will no longer be writing novels owing to 'creeping blindness' because of type-1 diabetes.