'This is the story of Tom Inglis Moore, controversial crusader for Australian writers, himself a poet, journalist, teacher and scholar. It dispels longstanding myths about the teaching of Australian literature in Australia and speaks of friendships with literary legends including Miles Franklin and Mary Gilmore, Alan Marshall and Xavier Herbert. A Love Affair with Australian Literature traces Moore's life and influence from the farming country of Camden south of Sydney, thence to England and the United States and, via the Philippines and New Guinea, to Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory' (back cover).
