Michael Cook correspondence regarding James McAuley

MLMSS 11663

fonds

1988-1993

9664506

0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder)

James McAuley was born on 12 October 1917 in Lakemba, Sydney. He studied English, Latin and Philosophy at the University of Sydney and taught for two years before joining the military service as a research consultant. In 1944 McAuley and Harold Stewart were involved in the Ern Malley hoax. McAuley was also a lecturer at the Australian School of Pacific Administration, the founding editor of Quadrant and Reader and then Professor in Poetry at the University of Tasmania. He died in Tasmania on 15 October 1976 after a long battle with cancer.

Reference
Australian Catholic University, viewed 17 October 2022, https://resource.acu.edu.au/siryan/Academy

Collection of correspondence regarding author, James McAuley, compiled by Michael Cook when researching and writing his PhD thesis on McAuley's poetry through Sydney University, 1988-1993.

List of correspondents:

Michael Cook
Rosemary Dobson
Ronald Dunlop (university friend of McAuley)
Dorothy Green
Donald Horne
Professor A. C. Jackson
John Passmore
B. A. Santamaria
Jim Somerville (university friend of McAuley)
Harold Stewart
Amy Witting (pseudonym of Joan Levick)

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