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'Join forty of Australia's best storytellers in A Revealed Life, an intimate anthology of the moments and events that have shaped their lives between the bookends of birth and death ... A Revealed Life showcases the very best contemporary memoir pieces as published in the literary and public affairs quarterly, Griffith Review.' -- Back cover.

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:ABC Books , 2007 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.

The Story My Mother Tells Me, Georgia Blain , single work autobiography (p. 2-16)

Journey to the Spare World, Anna Maria Dell'Oso , single work autobiography (p. 17-31)

I Hear With My Eyes, Donna McDonald , single work autobiography (p. 32-45)

View From Munibung Hill, Andrew Belk , single work autobiography (p. 46-54)

Note: Names and identifying features in this story have been altered to protect people who still live there. (p.54)

Sensual Degrees of Separation, Jay Verney , single work autobiography (p. 55-62)

That Prolific Mother of Strife, Michael McKernan , single work autobiography (p. 63-69)

Songs of Childhood, Nick Earls , single work autobiography (p. 70-78)

Five Acts of Friendship, David Sornig , single work autobiography (p. 79-87)

From a Moving Car, Meera Anne Atkinson , single work autobiography (p. 96-103)

Mending a Broken Link, Tara June Winch , single work autobiography (p. 104-107)

Amusing and Stimulating Small Minds, Gideon Haigh , single work autobiography (p. 108-112)

Encounters with Mrs L BA (OXON), Helen Elliott , single work autobiography (p. 113-123)

Mac Attack, Sally Breen , single work autobiography (p. 128-132)

Confusions of an Economist's Daughter, Eve Vincent , single work autobiography (p. 133-141)

Mixed Blessings, Creed C. O'Hanlon , single work autobiography (p. 142-149)

The Casuarina Forest, Matthew Condon , single work autobiography (p. 152-161)

Confessions of a Weather Nut Memoir : Confessions of a Weather Nut, Phil Brown , single work autobiography (p. 162-166)

The Exotic at Home, David Malouf , single work autobiography (p. 167-173)

Even Further North, Murray Sayle , single work autobiography (p. 174-184)

Note: With title: Ever Further North

Sydney and Me, Lucy Lehmann , single work essay (p. 185-190)

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Speaking Personally Gillian Whitlock , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies , Fall vol. 17 no. 2 2011; (p. 93-101)
— Review of A Revealed Life : Australian Writers and Their Journeys in Memoir 2007 anthology autobiography ; Creative Lives : Personal Papers of Australian Writers and Artists Penelope Hanley , 2009 selected work biography ; The Littoral Zone : Australian Contexts and Their Writers 2007 anthology criticism ; The Well in the Shadow : A Writer's Journey through Australian Literature Chester Eagle , 2010 selected work criticism

Westerly Non-Fiction Review 2006-2007 Peter Pierce , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 52 no. 2007; (p. 160-171)
— Review of 'Flashing Eyes and Floating Hair' : A Reading of Gwen Harwood's Pseudonymous Poetry Cassandra Atherton , 2006 single work criticism ; The Higher Self in Christopher Brennan's 'Poems' : Esotericism, Romanticism, Symbolism Katherine Barnes , 2006 single work criticism ; Prince of the Church : Patrick Francis Moran, 1830-1911 Philip Ayres , 2007 single work biography ; Homing In : Essays on Australian Literature and Selfhood Bruce Bennett , 2006 selected work criticism essay autobiography ; Mind the Country : Tim Winton's Fiction Salhia Ben-Messahel , 2006 single work criticism ; My Father's Compass : A Memoir Howard Goldenberg , 2007 single work autobiography ; Darby : One Hundred Years of Life in a Changing Culture Liam Campbell , Darby Jampijinpa Ross , 2006 single work life story ; Prisoners of the Japanese : Literary Imagination and the Prisoner-of-War Experience Roger Bourke , 2006 single work criticism ; Translating Lives : Living with Two Languages and Cultures 2007 anthology autobiography ; The Sea Coast of Bohemia : Literary Life in Sydney's Roaring Twenties Peter Kirkpatrick , 1992 single work criticism ; The Forgotten Children : Fairbridge Farm School and Its Betrayal of Australia's Child Migrants David Hill , 2007 single work autobiography ; Well Done, Those Men : Memoirs of a Vietnam Veteran Barry Heard , 2005 single work autobiography ; David Malouf Don Randall , 2007 single work criticism ; A Story To Tell Laurel Nannup , 2006 single work autobiography ; The Best Australian Essays 2006 2006 anthology essay ; Sunrise West Jacob G. Rosenberg , 2007 single work autobiography ; A Revealed Life : Australian Writers and Their Journeys in Memoir 2007 anthology autobiography ; Another Country Nicolas Rothwell , 2007 selected work prose ; The Melancholy Dane : (A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Man) Edwin Wilson , 2006 single work autobiography

Off the Shelf Owen Richardson , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 21 July 2007; (p. 28)
— Review of A Revealed Life : Australian Writers and Their Journeys in Memoir 2007 anthology autobiography

In Short : Nonfiction Bruce Elder , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 9-10 June 2007; (p. 39)
— Review of A Revealed Life : Australian Writers and Their Journeys in Memoir 2007 anthology autobiography