Xavier Herbert: A Biography

By Frances De Groen

This ground-breaking first biography explores the contradictions at the core of Xavier Herbert's turbulent life and career (1901-1984). Charting his lifelong quest to discover the reality of his existence and to forge a larger-than-life identity, it highlights Herbert's compulsion to write and illuminates his abiding themes. Labelled at various times "ratbag" and "mug genius" as well as "master writer", Xavier Herbert led a life characterised by controversy and contradiction. His signature books, Capricornia (1938) and Poor Fellow My country (1975), were to change the face of Australian novel writing.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0702230219
• ISBN13: 9780702230219
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: University of Queensland Pr (Australia)
• Length: 349 Pages