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John Bailey John Bailey i(A275 works by)
Born: Established: 1944 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

John Bailey has worked as a teacher and barrister in addition to his career as a writer. Bailey published two novels during the 1970s before returning to work as a barrister. In 1999 Bailey quit the Bar and moved from Melbourne, Victoria, to Mullumbimby, northern New South Wales, in order to write full time.

Bailey's non-fiction writing includes The White Divers of Broome : The True Story of a Fatal Experiment (2001) and The Lost German Slave Girl : The Extraordinary True Story of the Slave Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom (2003).

In the 2007 New South Wales state election Bailey stood as the Green's candidate for the seat of Ballina.

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Personal Awards

2016 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships — Australia Council Literature Board Grants Literature Arts Projects For Individuals and Groups $15,200.00
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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Into the Unknown : The Tormented Life and Expeditions of Ludwig Leichhardt Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2012 Z1866450 2012 single work biography

'Ludwig Leichhardt is Australia's most intriguing explorer. Born and educated in Prussia in the early 19th century, Leichhardt was a polymath, a man fascinated by the natural world and possessed by a longed for adventure and exploration. Australia was then almost completely unexplored apart from the colonies clustered on its coastline-the interior a vast and mysterious blank. It was a continent and a time ripe for amateur naturalists and explorers, and Leichhardt took up the challenge.

'His expeditions were to begin in triumph, then dwindle into acrimony, despair and misery before finally ending in disappearance and death and giving rise to one of the enduring mysteries of the Australian history.' (From the publisher's website.)
2011 winner FAW Sid Harta Literature Award
y separately published work icon Mr Stuart's Track : The Forgotten Life of Australia's Greatest Explorer Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2006 Z1288936 2006 single work biography 'On 14 May 1858, an expedition of discovery led by John McDouall Stuart departed from a copper mine located on the very edge of the known world in the North Flinders Ranges. The Australian continent stretched for another 2,000 kilometres to the north and 2,500 to the west and no white man had the slightest idea of what was there. It was to be the first of six expeditions mounted by Stuart, then aged 42, as he sought to uncover the mysteries of the interior and forge a path to the north. Ultimately he was to become part of a race across the continent, his rivals being the Burke and Wills expedition. In the end Stuart was to be the first European to cross Australia from south to north and return again, as the cumbersome expedition of Burke and Wills turned from farce to tragedy. Yet his hero's homecoming was to be short lived. Mr Stuart's Track is a fascinating study of a loner, an explorer of no fixed abode, who battled alcoholism and ill health to push himself to the limits of endurance in crossing straight through the red centre to the northern seas.' (Publisher's blurb)
2007 winner Mark and Evette Moran Nib Award for Literature
2007 shortlisted National Biography Award
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