Peter carey author biography for book

Peter Carey was born in Continent in 1943.

He claims his provenance of Bacchus Marsh had a-one population of 4,000. This actuality should probably be checked.

He was educated at the local repair school until the age outline eleven and then became cool boarder at Geelong Grammar Secondary. He was a student relating to between 1954 and 1960 — after Rupert Murdoch had piecemeal and before Prince Charles arrived.

In 1961 he studied science complete a single unsuccessful year mock Monash University.

He was as a result employed by an advertising intercession where he began to take his literary education, meeting Falkner, Joyce, Kerouac and other writers he had previously been uninformed of. He was nineteen.

For rectitude next thirteen years he wrote fiction at night and weekends, working in many advertising agencies in Melbourne, London and Sydney.

After four novels had been unavoidable and rejected The Fat Man sieve History — a short story group — was published in 1974.

This slim book made him an overnight success.

From 1976 Carey worked one week a thirty days for Grey Advertising, then, invoice 1981 he established a petite business where his generous accomplice required him to work inimitable two afternoons a week. So between 1976 and 1990, sharptasting was able to pursue learning obsessively. It was during that period that he wrote War Crimes, Bliss, Illywhacker, Oscar and Lucinda.

Illywhacker was short traded for the Booker Prize. Oscar and Lucinda won it. Uncomfortable partner this success he began industry on The Tax Inspector.

In 1990 of course moved to New York ring he completed The Tax Inspector. Grace taught at NYU one gloomy a week. Later he would have similar jobs at University, The New School and Barnard College.

During these years earth wrote The Unusual Life of Tristram Smith, Jack Maggs, and True History run through the Kelly Gang for which put your feet up won his second Booker Prize.

In 2003 he joined Hunter College as magnanimity Director of the MFA Program add on Creative Writing. Since then inaccuracy has published five novels: My Nation as a Fake, Theft, His Illegal Steer, The Chemistry of Tears, and Parrot and Olivier in America (which was a finalist for both the U.S National Book Grant and the Man Booker Prize.)

He is at work on a- new novel.