Author talk – Frank Moorhouse: Strange Paths with Matthew Lamb

Overview

Join the Friends of the National Library and biographer Matthew Lamb for 'a ramble in the mind of an adolescent' as he delves into young Frank Moorhouse's life, exploring how this critical period shaped the author and why adolescence deserves more attention in literary biography.

You can attend this event in-person or watch the online livestream. The livestream link will be sent a week before the event and again one day prior to the event.

Frank Moorhouse was a legendary writer in Australian literary and cultural life. He was known for a diverse body of work including essays, short stories, journalism, scripts, the iconic Edith Trilogy – an unapologetic activist, intellectual, libertarian and champion of freedom of speech and sexual self-determination. Though he lived his life publicly, his private stories have not been shared and the many paths he forged were left unexamined until recently. The Library holds Moorhouse’s early papers from when he started writing at aged 12.

Matthew Lamb is the author of Frank Moorhouse: Strange Paths, the first in a projected two volume cultural biography of Frank Moorhouse. He is a former editor of Review of Australian Fiction and Island magazines and has two PhDs in Literature and Philosophy. He currently writes the Public Things Newsletter on the relationship between literary culture and democracy.