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Susanna de Vries is a historian, author and former academic. The majority of her books detail the bravery and hardships experienced by women during war. She draws the accounts from war records, contemporary newspaper accounts, family histories and personal letters. She was trained as an art historian. In 1996, she was made a Member of the Order of Australia in for services to art and literature. De Vries has published more than a dozen books. She was born in England and moved to Australia in the 1975.

Personal life
Susanna de Vries was born on 6 October 1936. De Vries grow up in England and went to St George's School, Ascot, in Berkshire. She studied art history and history at the Sorbonne in Paris and the University of Madrid. De Vries moved to Queensland in 1975 where shortly afterwards she began working at a library at the University of Queensland. In 1980, she moved to Sydney with her husband.

Career
She edited The Australian Connoisseur and Collector magazine.

Other activities
In June 2015, de Vries hosted a ceremony at the Shrine of Remembrance in Brisbane to honour ANZAC nurses.

She has spoken out against the supression of reports of Aboriginal violence suggesting it is a form of censorship based on guilt.

Awards

 * 1996 Member of the Order of Australia
 * 2001 she was awarded a Tyrone Guthrie Fellowship by the Literature Board of the Australia Council.
 * 2012 the Society of Australian Women Writers presented Susanna with the Alice Award
 * Sligo Non-Fiction prize
 * Alice Award, Society of Australian Women Authors, Sydney.

Published works

 * Conrad Martens on the Beagle and in Australia, 1993, documents the life of Conrad Martens
 * Blue Ribbons, Bitter Bread – The Life of Joice NanKivell Loch, 2000, tells the story of Joice NanKivell Loch
 * The Complete Book of Great Australian Women: 36 Women who Have Changed the Course of Australia, 2003
 * Heroic Australian Women in War, 2004
 * Great Pioneer Women of the Outback, 2005, HarperCollins
 * To Hell and Back, 2007
 * Desert Queen: The Many Lives and Loves of Daisy Bates, 2008, a revealing portrayal of Daisy Bates
 * Trailblazers and Females on the Fatal Shore, 2011
 * Royal Mistresses Of The House of Hanover-Windsor, 2012
 * Australian Heroines of World War One: Gallipoli, Lemnos and the Western Front, 2013
 * Historic Sydney: The Founding of Australia, 2014
 * The Many Lives of Daisy Bates
 * Royal Mistresses Of The House Of Hanover-Windsor
 * Females On The Fatal Shore
 * Ethel Carrick Fox