![]() ![]() He was nineteen.įor the next thirteen years he wrote fiction at night and weekends, working in many advertising agencies in Melbourne, London and Sydney.Īfter four novels had been written and rejected The Fat Man in History - a short story collection - was published in 1974. He was then employed by an advertising agency where he began to receive his literary education, meeting Faulkner, Joyce, Kerouac and other writers he had previously been unaware of. In 1961 he studied science for a single unsuccessful year at Monash University. He was a student there between 19 - after Rupert Murdoch had graduated and before Prince Charles arrived. ![]() He was educated at the local state school until the age of eleven and then became a boarder at Geelong Grammar School. Peter Carey was born in Australia in 1943. ![]() Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. ![]()
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