Frank Hardy : a political biography

Jenny Hocking
South Melbourne, Vic : Lothian, 2005

ISBN: 0734408366

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Book description
This is the definitive biography of one of Australia’s most celebrated and controversial writers. A member of the communist party from an early age, Frank Hardy’s first secretly published novel Power Without Glory was the subject of an infamous criminal libel case. Hardy continued to challenge political and social issues with his writing until shortly before his death in 1994. Jenny Hocking includes material from interviews with surviving Hardy family members and never-before-published archival documents that shed new light on one of the most important Australian writers of the twentieth century. [Lothian]

About the author
Associate Professor Jennifer Hocking is the Deputy Director of the National Centre for Australian Studies and is the recipient of the Australian Research Council's prestigious QEII Research Fellowship (1999-2005) at Monash University. Her previous publications include Lionel Murphy: A political biography (2000), Terror laws: ASIO, counter-terrorism and the threat to democracy(2004) and It’s time again: Whitlam and modern Labor (2003, co-edited with Dr Colleen Lewis).

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