About Nikki Gemmell

Nikki Gemmell (born 1966) is a best-selling Australian author. She resides in Sydney, Australia.

Gemmell is the author of fourteen works of fiction and seven non-fiction books. Her books have been translated into 22 languages.

Nikki was born in Wollongong, New South Wales, and attended Kincoppal-Rose Bay, Sydney, on a scholarship. She graduated from the University of Technology Sydney with a Masters in Writing and worked as a radio journalist for ABC Radio and the BBC World Service.

Her distinctive writing style, including her use of the second-person narrative, has gained her critical and popular acclaim. In France she has been described as a "female Jack Kerouac".[2] In 2007, the French literary magazine Lire included her in a list of what it called the fifty most important writers in the world – those it believed would have a significant influence on the literature of the 21st century.[3]

Her best-known work is the 2003 novel The Bride Stripped Bare, an explicit exploration of female sexuality, which was originally written and published anonymously. Gemmell was identified publicly as the author of The Bride Stripped Bare before publication. The book went on to become a worldwide publishing sensation and the best-selling book by an Australian author in 2003. In the wake of the success of Fifty Shades of Grey, it reentered the fiction charts in the UK in the summer of 2012. Two follow-up novels complete The Bride Stripped Bare trilogy: With My Body and I Take You.