Kenneth Moon Kenneth Moon i(A98794 works by) (a.k.a. Kenneth W. Moon; Ken Moon; Kenneth William Moon)
Born: Established: 19 Sep 1928 Bronte, Bondi area, Sydney Eastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales, ; Died: Ceased: 18 Apr 2017 Balmain, Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Following his graduation from Balmain Teachers' College, Ken Moon taught in NSW Riverina and Blue Mountains one-teacher schools in 1948-1950, and in Sydney from 1950-1961. He wrote fiction for the U.S. young adult market and ABC School Broadcast scripts, and several books. In 1961-62 he and his wife Elaine wrote their way around England and Europe for two years with their four small children, equipped with typewriters, cases of stationery and manuscripts and Correspondence School lessons.

He then worked as a secondary school librarian in Sydney while completing an Arts degree at the University of New England by distance education. He tutored at UNE while completing an Honours degree, after which he became a lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in the Department of English there. He published scholarly articles on Virginia Woolf, Alexander Pope and several Australian authors.

Retiring to Sydney in1990, he taught Literature and Writing classes with Sydney University's Continuing Education division for eight years, and published a guide to writing autobiography; and with Elaine another for 'quality fiction'; and a volume of previously published short stories. Then until 2004, he created and taught adult education courses with the WEA.

He and Elaine co-judged the 1988 and 1999 Dorothea Mackellar National Poetry Competition.

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  • Kenneth Moon also published a biography for children Man of Everest: The Story of Sir Edmund Hillary [1962], The Renaissance (Reed Education, 1972) and Write Your Life: A Guide to Autobiography (1994), and with Elaine Moon he wrote New Australians (1965), Writing Quality Fiction : A Guide (1996); and the two-volume text English for Our Time (1967).
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