Today Writing NSW profiled the memoir I wrote for Jeanne Rockey AM, One Life, Two Worlds.
Jeanne is one of the wonderful people who helped launch the Starlight Foundation and Foodbank. Her first husband, George Rockey, set up the transport company, TNT, with Sir Peter Abeles in the 1960s. But George died of cancer when his daughter Caroline was four, so Jeanne wanted to record his story and the story of their life together. This is their story.
I’m a biographer endlessly fascinated by the multiplicity of choices biographers make when crafting a life story. When you read a biography, do you feel like you’re in the story living the biographical subject’s life, feeling what they’re feeling and seeing what they’re seeing? To stimulate your imagination this way, biographers make hundreds of decisions about how they research and write their […]
Father’s Day is just around the corner, and it’s time to show your dad how much you love and appreciate him. Finding the perfect gift for your dad can be a daunting task, especially if you’re looking for something unique. If he is someone who enjoys stories of perseverance, triumph and making a difference, we […]
Arthur Akuien Chol: A Life Fighting for my people is my latest book, the life story of Arthur Akuien Chol, South Sudan’s first Minister of Finance after the country gained independence in July 2011. It chronicles Arthur Akuien Chol’s journey from his beginnings as a cattle boy in South Sudan, through his struggle to gain […]
