Les Schubert, a former grazier, politician and business man, has spent the greater part of his life in Western Australia. His writing career began in 1987, after the death of his wife of forty years. In 1992 he published Kimberley Dreaming : The Century of Freddie Cox, a history of the Aborigines of Western Australia and their relationship with Louisa Downs Station. He also published Kimberley Dreams and Realities : An Objective Study of the Effects on Part Aboriginals Forcibly Educated in the Twentieth Century and the Tragedy of the Uneducated Indigenous (1997).