Miles Franklin, Xavier Herbert, Christina Stead, Patrick White, Dorothy Hewett, Kevin Gilbert, Thomas Keneally and Mem Fox all have stories hidden in the Manuscripts Collection of the National Library of Australia. Creative Lives brings together some of their stories and those of other well-known Australian literary figures in a book generously illustrated with personal photographs, sketches and paintings, diaries and drafts, and cards and letters - neatly typed or scrawled and claret-stained. (Back cover)
