Joan Elizabeth London is an Australian author of short stories, screenplays and novels. She graduated from the University of Western Australia having studied English and French, has taught English as a second language and is a bookseller. She lives in Fremantle, Western Australia, with her husband Geoffrey. London is the author of two collections of stories. The first, Sister Ships, won The Age Book of the Year, and the second, Letter to Constantine, won the Steele Rudd Award and the West Australian Premier's Award for Fiction. The two were published together as The New Dark Age. She has published two novels, Gilgamesh and The Good Parents. 

July 24th, 1948 in Perth (Age 76)