HALL OF FAME

Ms Anita Bell

2011 Inductee

Student 1979 - 1983

Anita Bell became a published author of non-fiction finance books, children’s comedy/crime thrillers, adult fantasy and comedy romance. She has achieved great success under a number of pen-names, gaining international recognition for her work. Anita has sold mor than 700,000 books in Australia alone, and has achieved numerous accolades including runner up for Overall Bes Selling Australian Title in 1999, and three of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Top 10 Best Selling Business Books of the Decade.

Anita is the author of popular award winning children’s thrillers, the Kirby’s Crusader series. She is considered to be Australian’s favourite debt-busting mum with her finance series, and wrote the multi-award winning Diamond Eyes trilogy, under her pen-name AA Bell, for which she most recently won the Prestigious 2011 Hemming Award for Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Themes. She has also published nearly 200 short stories, articles, magazine columns, bush ballads and poems for both adults and children. Anita’s motto is Age is no barrier to success.