Larry Buttrose

The author of more than a dozen books, Larry Buttrose was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and began writing in his teens. He graduated from the University of Adelaide?where he is currently doing his PhD?became a journalist with the ABC, and later a freelance. A poet, novelist, travel writer and essayist. He is also a playwright and screenwriter. He has published several non-fiction titles with New Holland, including Dead Famous: Deaths of the Famous and Famous Deaths (2007) and Tales of the...See more

The author of more than a dozen books, Larry Buttrose was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and began writing in his teens. He graduated from the University of Adelaide?where he is currently doing his PhD?became a journalist with the ABC, and later a freelance. A poet, novelist, travel writer and essayist. He is also a playwright and screenwriter. He has published several non-fiction titles with New Holland, including Dead Famous: Deaths of the Famous and Famous Deaths (2007) and Tales of the Popes: from Eden to El Dorado'(2008). See less