Bruce Elder is a journalist, writer and commentator and has been involved in writing over 60 books as well as working as a print and radio journalist in both London and Sydney.

He is currently a full-time journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald specialising in travel and popular culture. He is also the director of Walkabout, the Fairfax organisation's detailed travel internet site.

In 1988 Bruce won acclaim for his book Blood on the Wattle which was praised as 'arguably the best book ever written about Aborigines by a white writer'. It was recently listed as one of the ten most influential Australian works of non-fiction in the twentieth century in an extensive poll conducted by the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

In 1996 Bruce won the prestigious Pascall Prize for Critical Writing. This was the first time the award had been won by a writer working in the field of popular culture.