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Helen Topor
Official website of the award-winning author of Neither King nor Saint

Helen is an award-winning Canberra author, editor, mentor and Voluntary Guide at the National Gallery of Australia.
Her publications include Outdoor Games for Today’s Kids (2017), Discovering Vermeer (2018) and Neither King nor Saint (2022), which won a MARION ACT Notable Book Award for nonfiction in 2023.
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Upcoming Book
Catharina and Vermeer: The Artist and his Muse (working title)
The true story of Catharina Bolnes, a rich Catholic heiress, and Protestant Johannes Vermeer, the world-famous painter of Girl with a Pearl Earring, has remained a secret until now.


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