Written 'on a senior writers grant from the Commonwealth Literature Fund to work on his Australian memoirs, 1943-1976.' Roskolenko visited Australia, his last visit, in 1976 on this grant.
Source: Nan Bowman Albinski, ''Greetings to the Angry Penguins': Ern Malley, Harry Roskolenko and USA Connections', Australian Literary Studies, 17.3 (May 1996): 299
