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= John Kerr = John Kerr is a New Zealand-born Australian writer and publisher of non-fiction books. Notably, his work focuses on biography, true crime, and natural disasters.

DoB: 25 November 1947"PloB: Oamaru, New Zealand"Ed:    Waitaki Boys’ High School"BSc University of Otago"        BA University of Otago""Arr Australia, 1976

Heinemann Educational Australia 1976-

The Macmillan Co of Australia

Heinemann Publishers Australia

Kerr Publishing 1988 – now

Publishing highlights

Bob Ansett: an autobiography with Robert Pullan, 1988

Oscar: the true story of a husky, 1989

Fred Hollows: an autobiography with Peter Corris, 1992

Judith Anderson. Australian star. First lady of the American stage, finalist George Freedly Memorial Award for an exemplary book in the field of live theatre and performance, 2020

Penned

High Times in the High Country: the life of a musterer with W V Kerr (Penguin NZ, 2000)

Wanted: John & Lucy: rescue by force, Silverwater Prison, 25 March 1999 (Ice, 2003)

Bloody Relations: true stories of murder in the family (Penguin, 2007)

The Hit Men: Australia’s contract killers (Penguin, 2010)

Books on crime, oceans, weather, volcanoes…

John Kerr worked as a police roundsman and court report for a daily newspaper in New Zealand, and has resided in Melbourne and Sydney since 1977. He has published many true crime books, including Untold Violence; Walsh Street; Neddy: the life and crimes of Arthur 'Neddy' Smith; The Phillip Island Murder; Hellbent: Ces Waters and Me; and Roger Rogerson's memoir, The Dark Side. He is the author of Wanted: John & Lucy about the helicopter hijack and prison break, Bloody Relations: true stories of murder in the family and a series of 96-page books on true-crime themes. He is working on this country's first book on its killings by contract, The Hit Men, and a dictionary of Crime & Punishment in Australia, to be published in 2010. John Kerr worked as a police roundsman and court reporter for a daily newspaper in New Zealand, and has lived in Melbourne and Sydney since 1977. His company, Kerr Publishers, was founded in 1986 and has published many true crime books, including Untold Violence, Walsh Street, Neddy: The Life and Crimes of Arthur 'Neddy' Smith,The Phillip Island Murder, Hellbent: Ces Waters and Me and Roger Rogerson's The Dark Side.

John Kerr is the author of Wanted: John & Lucy, about a helicopter hijack and prison break, Bloody Relations: True Stories of Murder in the Family (Penguin, 2007) and The Hit Men (Michael Joseph, 2009).

He was a judge of the Furphy Literary awards in 2020, 2021, and 2022.

His publishing company, Kerr Publishing, was founded in 1986 and has notably published the works of Fred Hollows: an autobiography with Peter Corris, which was an Australian number one bestseller, and Bob Ansett: an autobiography, which was a national number two bestseller. In 1991 he published Fred Hollows: an autobiography with Peter Corris, which was a number one bestseller [Reference].

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