Michael Cannon
Michael Cannon was the founding editor of Historical Records of Victoria and an award-winning journalist, newspaper editor and historian. He wrote and edited more than thirty books, including bestseller The Land Boomers, which caused a sensation in Australia in the 1960s. In 1969, he edited The Vagabond Papers for Melbourne University Press and in 1970 was awarded a Commonwealth Literary Fellowship. From 1971 to 1998, he published a steady stream of books. His extensive personal papers are held by the National Archives.
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- Gideon Haigh launches Cannon Fire: A Life in Print
' "Cannon Fire" instead reeks of ink and ingenuity, that so-rare combination in Australia, and this country's tradition of auto-didacticism, never scarcer. There's an old joke about the Australian who's asked whether he can play the violin. "I don't know," he replies. "I've never tried." I can pay "Cannon Fire" no greater tribute than that reading it makes you want to roll up your sleeves, get busy, have a go, and not be sorry should it not quite work out.'
- Read an extract from Cannon Fire: A Life in Print
Read an extract from Cannon Fire: A Life in Print—Life Revisited by Michael Cannon