Erin Pizzey was born in China, captured by the Japanese, held hostage and left on the last boat out of Shanghai. Her father was a diplomat and her turbulent parents roamed the Far East dragging their children behind them. It is no surprise that Erin opened the first refuge in the world for battered women and children in 1971 but she fell foul of the feminist movement when she declared that both men and women could be violent.

When all her non-fiction was out of print, she turned to writing fiction where her readers could follow her work and her philosophy.

Erin has also contributed to The New Statesman, The Sunday Times and Cosmopolitan as well as many international journals and newspapers. She has a passion for life and for love and is an amazingly powerful speaker who speaks from her heart and not from her head.

Erin has lived in China, Persia, Beirut, Singapore, Santa Fe, New Mexico, The Cayman Islands, Tuscany and now Twickenham and has travelled the rest of the world in her quest to discover who we love, how we love and why we love. Her hobbies include reading, writing, cooking, antiques, the violin, gardening, wine, food and travel.

She is an expert on the subject of relationships, how we make them and why some succeed and some fail. Erin is often called upon to address audiences about her incredibly interesting life, the beginning of the refuge movement and what has happened over the last thirty years.

AWARDS: International Order of Volunteers For Peace, Diploma Of Honour (Italy) 1981. Nancy Astor Award for Journalism 1983. World Congress of Victimology (San Francisco) 1897 - Distinguished Leadership Award. St. Valentino Palm d’Oro International Award for Literature, February 14th, 1994, Italy.

Published NON-FICTION: Scream Quietly Or The Neighbours Will Hear (the first book in the world on domestic abuse.)
INFERNAL CHILD: an early memoir
SLUT’S COOKBOOK
ERIN PIZZEY COLLECTS
PRONE TO VIOLENCE

Published FICTION:
THE WATERSHED - HAMISH HAMILTON
IN THE SHADOW OF THE CASTLE - HAMISH HAMILTON
THE PLEASURE PALACE - (UNPUBLISHED)
FIRST LADY - WILLIAM COLLINS
THE CONSUL GENERAL’S DAUGHTER - WILLIAM COLLINS
THE SNOW LEOPARD OF SHANGHAI - WILLIAM COLLINS
OTHER LOVERS - HARPER COLLINS
SWIMMING WITH DOLPHINS - HARPER COLLINS
FOR THE LOVE OF A STRANGER - HARPER COLLINS
KISSES - HARPER COLLINS
THE WICKED WORLD OF WOMEN - HARPER COLLINS
THE FAME GAME (IN PROGRESS)

SHORT STORIES:
THE MAN IN THE BLUE VAN. THE FRANGIPANI TREE. ADDICTIONS, DANCING, SAND.

Keynote Speeches
Invited by the German government to Berlin to speak and to show her film. ‘SCREAM QUIETLY OR THE NEIGHBOURS WILL HEAR’
1997 lunch of honour on Capital Hill sponsored by Congresswoman Lindy Boggs and Congressman Newton Steer.
1978 invited by Mental Health Association of New Zealand to give lecture tour.
1979 invited by US Government and sponsored by The Salvation Army to do a second lecture tour of 21 cities. 1979 film, “Scream Quietly Or The Neighbours Will Hear”, aired twice nationally on PBS in America.
1982 asked to be resident expert on family violence on ‘Phil Donahue Show.’
1984 gave evidence in San Antonio, Texas to President Reagan’s Attorney General’s Task Force on Family Violence. Guest of honour in Rome at a conference of International Supreme Court Judges,
1994 - 1997 Three year grant from The Royal Society Of Literature for ‘work of literary merit'.
1998 Patron of ‘Care and Comfort Romania,’ a program to build a day care centre and an old people’s centre.
1998. Six weeks speaking tour of Canada
Nov 2002 invitation to speak in Burmuda.

FILMS AND DOCUMENTARIES:
Scream Quietly Or The Neighbours Will Hear.
Chiswick Women’s Aid - a teaching film.
That Awful Woman, work in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Cutting Edge Channel 4 SANCTUARY.
BBC2 documentary Counterblast 1998.
Her hobbies include reading, writing, cooking, antiques, playing the violin, gardening, wine, food and travel.