Lian Hearn

Lian Hearn is a pen name of Gillian Rubinstein, the English-born children's author and playwright who moved to Australia in 1973. Under this name she wrote the Tales of the Otori, beginning with Across the Nightingale Floor in 2001 and continuing through Grass for His Pillow and Brilliance of the Moon. The series is set in a fictional island nation resembling feudal Japan.