| Chloe Hooper | |
| Birth Name: | Chloe Melisande Hooper |
| Birth Place: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Novelist, journalist |
| Language: | English |
| Nationality: | Australian |
| Education: | Lauriston Girls' School |
| Alma Mater: | University of Melbourne Columbia University |
| Years Active: | 2002–present |
Chloe Melisande Hooper (born 1973) is an Australian author.
Her first novel, A Child's Book of True Crime (2002), was short-listed for the Orange Prize for Literature and was a New York Times Notable Book. In 2005, she turned to reportage and the next year won a Walkley Award for her writing on the 2004 Palm Island death in custody case. (2008) is a non-fiction account of the same case. Her 2019 book, The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire, published in the United States by Seven Stories Press in 2020, investigates the Black Saturday bushfires, one of the most devastating wildfires in Australian history.
Hooper was a recipient of a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship, an award of given to mid-career creatives and thought leaders.[3]