Alan Frost Alan Frost i(A78319 works by)
Born: Established: 1943 ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Alan Frost completed an MA at the University of Queensland (1966). Following this, he went to the University of Rochester, New York, where he completed an MA (1968) and a PhD (1969). He took up an appointment in the English Department at La Trobe University in 1970, moving full-time into the History Department in 1975, where he became a professor of history.

Frost's The First Fleet: The Real Story was a co-winner of the 2011 Alex Buzo Prize and was shortlisted for the 2011 CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature. It was re-released by Black Inc. in 2019.

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y separately published work icon Botany Bay Mirages : Illusions of Australia's Convict Beginnings Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 1994 Z1179883 1994 single work non-fiction
1995 shortlisted NBC Banjo Awards — NBC Banjo Award for Non-Fiction
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