Collection 1: Desmond O'Grady literary papers, 1845-1995

MLMSS 6166

sub-fonds

1845-1995, compiled 1950s-1995

Textual Records, Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Clippings

118248

4.93 metres of textual material (29 boxes) - manuscript, computer printouts, computer printouts, with manuscript annotations and corrections, photocopy, typescript, typescript, photocopy, typescript, carbon, typescript with manuscript annotations and corrections, typescript, processed, printed, and printed, photocopy
Clippings - some photocopies
8 audiotape reels (1 hr., 54 min.) - 18 cm, 6 mm tape
1 audiocassette (7 min.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape

Desmond O'Grady is an Australian expatriate journalist and author who has lived and worked in Rome since the early 1960s. He is a correspondent for various newspapers including The Sydney Morning Herald. His books include the novel, Deschooling Kevin Carew (1974); two collections of short stories, A Long Way from Home (1966) and Valid for All Countries (1979); Raffaello! Raffaello! (1985), a biography of Raffaello Carboni, an eyewitness to the Eureka Stockade; The Victory of the Cross: A History of the Early Church in Rome (1993); The Turned Card: Christianity Before and After the Wall (1995), an exploration of Christianity's role in the fall of European Communism and in ex-Communist Europe; and a collection of essays, Correggio Jones and the Runaways: The Italo-Australian Connection (1995).

Includes literary manuscripts of and/or research material for his journalism, books and plays, some being unpublished; and audio tape interviews with the writers Anthony Burgess and Gore Vidal, and Italian politician Susanna Agnelli

English, Italian

Reproduction Restricted