Author(s): Sue Woolfe

On Writing

Bestselling author Sue Woolfe tracks the journey of her novel, "The Secret Cure", through her interest in theories about creativity from the field of neuroscience. Woolfe explores the relationship between mind and body as well as how both inform the writing process. It is designed to be a guide for emerging and student writers as well as readers interested in how the progress of an idea can develop in the hands of an acclaimed writer. This title continues the work Woolfe started with Kate Grenville of books about writing, this time with a particular case study of a novel-in-progress. Author Biography: Sue Woolfe is the author of three novels, several short stories and academic works. Woolfe spent her childhood in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales and was educated at Sydney University and the University of New England. She is the author of Painted Woman, the novel and play, and co-author with Kate Grenville of Making Stories: How Ten Australian Novels were Written (2001). Woolfe's best-selling novel Leaning Towards Infinity (2000), about two generations of women mathematicians, was released in 1996, winning the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in 1997 as well as being short-listed for many other prizes, including the prestigious US Tiptree Prize. As well as being published in the United States and UK, Leaning Towards Infinity has been published in translation in a number of countries. Fay Weldon called it 'tumultuous and nourishing', and in the US it was named as 'the deepest novel of ideas for years'. As editor of the anthology Wild Minds (1999), Woolfe assembled stories from some of this century's greatest authors, including Marguerite Duras, Flannery O'Connor, Italo Calvino and Joseph Conrad. In 2004, Woolfe published The Secret Cure, a profoundly moving novel which explores new ways of what it means to be human, to be normal, to be honourable, and what it means to love.