Susanna de Vries is an art historian who lectures at the University of Queensland. She has been the recipient of a Churchill Fellowship to study Renaissance art in Italy‚ and has written extensively on art and history both here and overseas. She was made a member of the Order of Australia in 1996 ′for services to art and literature′. Susanna is the author of many books‚ several of which have won awards. In 2001 she was awarded a Tyrone Guthrie Fellowship to write in Ireland by the Literature Board of the Australia Council. Her most recent book was To Hell and Back.
