Meredith Hooper | |
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Born | Meredith Jean Rooney Adelaide, Australia |
Occupation | Writer |
Language | English |
Alma mater | University of Adelaide, University of Oxford |
Genre | History, science writing, children's books |
Subject | Antarctica |
Spouse | Richard Hooper |
Children | Tom Hooper |
Meredith Hooper is an Australian historian and writer. [1]
She was born and raised in Adelaide, Australia. [2] Hooper graduated in history from the University of Adelaide, [3] then studied imperial history at Oxford. [2]
She is a member of Association of British Science Writers, Royal Institution and the British Society for the History of Science.[ citation needed]
In 2000, the National Science Foundation and the Congress of the United States awarded Hooper the Antarctica Service Medal. [4] In 2014, Hooper was named the Australian of the Year in the UK. [4] [5]
She is the wife of British civil servant Richard Hooper [14] and mother of film director Tom Hooper. After seeing a 2007 reading of an unproduced play, she told her son she thought he should consider pursuing it for a film adaptation; the project became his Academy Award-winning film, The King's Speech. [15]