Pip Williams

Author

Pip Williams is an Australian novelist whose bestselling historical fiction celebrates the hidden contributions of women to the making of knowledge. She studied Psychology and Politics at the University of Adelaide and has worked in social research, community arts, and education. Williams's debut novel The Dictionary of Lost Words was... inspired by the true story of the women who worked as volunteers on the Oxford English Dictionary in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, following a girl who grows up in the Scriptorium and begins collecting the words that the dictionary's male editors discard. The novel was a number one bestseller in Australia and internationally. The Bookbinder of Jericho continues her exploration of women, words, and the Oxford University Press, following a woman who works as a bookbinder at the press during the First World War. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers beautifully crafted historical fiction about women whose intellectual contributions were erased from the official record — stories that restore their voices with elegance and passion. Read more Show less