Issue Details: First known date: 1996... 1996 Sumner Locke Elliott 'Writing Life' : A Biography
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This is the first biography of one of Australia's best loved writers, Sumner Locke Elliott. It is based both on the Sharon Clarke's conversations with Locke Elliott, and the privileged access she had to his papers and his wide circle of friends.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • St Leonards, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 1996 .
      Extent: xviii, 292p., xxiv p. of platesp.
      Description: illus., ports
      Note/s:
      • Includes bibliography and index.
      ISBN: 1863737464 (pbk)

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

A Writer's Life Unfolds Nancy Potter , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 12 no. 1 1998; (p. 64-65)

— Review of Sumner Locke Elliott 'Writing Life' : A Biography Sharon Clarke , 1996 single work biography
Flight to Write Wendy Blaxland , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , Autumn vol. 57 no. 1 1997; (p. 215-218)

— Review of Sumner Locke Elliott 'Writing Life' : A Biography Sharon Clarke , 1996 single work biography
Embracing a Talent Too Late Christopher Bantick , 1996 single work biography
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 21 July 1996; (p. 20)
Timely Biography Disappoints Felicity Packard , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Redoubt , no. 23 1996; (p. 125-126)

— Review of Sumner Locke Elliott 'Writing Life' : A Biography Sharon Clarke , 1996 single work biography
A Writing Life Sasha Soldatow , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 183 1996; (p. 12-13)

— Review of Sumner Locke Elliott 'Writing Life' : A Biography Sharon Clarke , 1996 single work biography
Untitled Veronica Kelly , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 17 no. 4 1996; (p. 411-415)

— Review of Pioneer Players : The Lives of Louis and Hilda Esson Peter Fitzpatrick , 1995 single work biography ; Stephen Sewell : The Playwright as Revolutionary Peter Fitzpatrick , 1991 single work criticism biography ; Sumner Locke Elliott 'Writing Life' : A Biography Sharon Clarke , 1996 single work biography
Toy Theatre of the Soul David McCooey , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 15 June 1996; (p. 8)

— Review of Sumner Locke Elliott 'Writing Life' : A Biography Sharon Clarke , 1996 single work biography
Putty in Their Hands Kate Jennings , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22 June 1996; (p. 13s)

— Review of Sumner Locke Elliott 'Writing Life' : A Biography Sharon Clarke , 1996 single work biography
Tormented by a Bevy of Aunts Katharine Brisbane , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-30 June 1996; (p. rev 8)

— Review of Sumner Locke Elliott 'Writing Life' : A Biography Sharon Clarke , 1996 single work biography
How a Little Boy Lost Became Father to the Man Bary Dowling , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 4 August 1996; (p. 10)

— Review of Sumner Locke Elliott 'Writing Life' : A Biography Sharon Clarke , 1996 single work biography
Embracing a Talent Too Late Christopher Bantick , 1996 single work biography
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 21 July 1996; (p. 20)
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