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y separately published work icon Out in the Open : An Autobiography single work   autobiography  
  • Author:agent Geoffrey Dutton http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/dutton-geoffrey
Issue Details: First known date: 1994... 1994 Out in the Open : An Autobiography
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'"I was born in a house of books."
'So begins this long-awaited autobiography, in which Geoffrey Dutton embarks on an honest, controversial and brilliantly entertaining journey through seventy crowded years.
'His unusual childhood was dominated by the lavish lives of his wealthy parents who collected houses as well as books, although young Geoffrey was despatched to boarding school at a young age while his mother traveled abroad to enjoy a flirtation with the European aristocracy.
'His real education came later, in wartime. I've joined the air force, and as well as embarking on various amorous adventures, his risky low flying antics had him promptly locked up in the "boob".
'During the war he also began publishing poetry and was closely associated with the modernist movement in art and literature. Later I studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, where CS Lewis was one of his tutors.
'Since then Geoffrey Dutton has become renowned as a poet, critic, biographer, publisher and editor. In this masterpiece of literary autobiography he traces many journeys, from his sojourn in Cold War crazy Kansas to a wild and wonderful visit to Russia as a hapless victim of Intourist. Other travels take him through the Pacific, Africa, Europe and the Mediterranean.
'There are many intimate portraits of his sometimes volatile friends, among them the feisty Zhenya Yevtushenko, fellow flier David Campbell, Russell Drysdale, Arthur Boyd, Sidney Nolan, the precocious Robert Hughes, Ken Slessor, and Max Harris, eccentric survivor of "Ern Malley " Here too is the full story of the celebrated, quarter-century friendship with Patrick White which ended so bitterly.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,: University of Queensland Press , 1994 .
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      Extent: xii, 528p.p.
      Edition info: UQ paperbacks.
      Description: [32]p. of plates : illus., ports.
      Note/s:
      • Includes index.
      ISBN: 0702226815

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Geoffrey Dutton : Little Adelaide and New York Nowhere Nicholas Jose , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Adelaide : A Literary City 2014; (p. 183-198)
Geoffrey Piers Dutton OA : 2 August 1922 - 17 September 1998 Philip Jones , 1999 single work obituary (for Geoffrey Dutton )
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 155 1999; (p. 81-82)
Untitled Katherine Gallagher , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Studies , Summer vol. 13 no. 1 1998; (p. 173-174)

— Review of Out in the Open : An Autobiography Geoffrey Dutton , 1994 single work autobiography
A Scarf-Trailer Badly Scarred Don Anderson , 1996 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27 April 1996; (p. 10)
Recollections and Letters Offer an Inside View of Australian Culture Robert L. Ross , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 9 no. 2 1995; (p. 172)

— Review of Out in the Open : An Autobiography Geoffrey Dutton , 1994 single work autobiography
A Crueller Shade of White A. P. Riemer , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Independent Monthly , November vol. 6 no. 5 1994; (p. 72-74)

— Review of Out in the Open : An Autobiography Geoffrey Dutton , 1994 single work autobiography ; Patrick White : Letters Patrick White , 1994 selected work correspondence
A Life and Some Letters Bruce Williams , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Eureka Street , December vol. 4 no. 10 1994; (p. 30-32)

— Review of Out in the Open : An Autobiography Geoffrey Dutton , 1994 single work autobiography ; Patrick White : Letters Patrick White , 1994 selected work correspondence
Beastly Opulence with Few Regrets James Griffin , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 15-16 October 1994; (p. rev 6)

— Review of Out in the Open : An Autobiography Geoffrey Dutton , 1994 single work autobiography
Big Book About a Life that is Largely Literary Jeff Doyle , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 29 October 1994; (p. C10)

— Review of Out in the Open : An Autobiography Geoffrey Dutton , 1994 single work autobiography
Flawed Treasure Tim Lloyd , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 29 October 1994; (p. 13)

— Review of Out in the Open : An Autobiography Geoffrey Dutton , 1994 single work autobiography
Writers' Call to the Bush Terry O'Connor , 1994 single work biography
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 26 August 1994; (p. 6)
Geoffrey Piers Dutton OA : 2 August 1922 - 17 September 1998 Philip Jones , 1999 single work obituary (for Geoffrey Dutton )
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 155 1999; (p. 81-82)
A Scarf-Trailer Badly Scarred Don Anderson , 1996 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27 April 1996; (p. 10)
Open Access? Geoffrey Dutton's 'Out in the Open' and Contemporary Autobiography Laurie Hergenhan , 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , Summer vol. 7 no. 3 1995; (p. 54-65)
Man of Letters Peter Pierce , 1994 single work biography
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , October vol. 74 no. 1052 1994; (p. 36-37)
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