Meredith Hooper is an Australian historian and writer.^[1]

Early life

She was born and raised in Adelaide, Australia.^[2] Hooper graduated in history from the University of Adelaide,^[3] then studied imperial history at Oxford.^[2]

Career

She is a member of Association of British Science Writers, Royal Institution and the British Society for the History of Science.^{[citation needed]}

In 2000, the National Science Foundation and the Congress of the United States awarded Hooper the Antarctica Service Medal.^[4] In 2014, Hooper was named the Australian of the Year in the UK.^[4][5]

Bibliography

• The Longest Winter: Scott's Other Heroes^[6][7][8]
• Celebrity Cat: With Paintings from Art Galleries Around the World^[9]
• The Pebble in my Pocket: A History of Our Earth^[10]
• The Endurance: Shackleton's Perilous Expedition in Antarctica^[11]
• The Ferocious Summer: Adelie Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica^[12]
• Stranded in the Winter: The Story of Scott’s Northern Party^[13]

Personal life

She is the wife of British civil servant Richard Hooper^[14] and mother of film director Tom Hooper. After seeing a 2007 reading of an unproduced play, she told her son she thought he should consider pursuing it for a film adaptation; the project became his Academy Award-winning film, The King's Speech.^[15]