Gideon Haigh has been a journalist since 1984, contributed to more than a hundred newspapers and magazines, written thirty-four books and edited seven others.
His work has won premier's literary awards in three states, two Waverley Library prizes for non-fiction, seven Australian Cricket Society literary awards, and a Ned Kelly Award for true crime. His most recent book is A Scandal in Bohemia: The Life and Death of Mollie Dean.