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Brian Matthews (writer)
Australian author (1936–2022)
Brian Matthews | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1936-12-27)27 December 1936 St Kilda, Victoria, Australia |
| Died | 2 June 2022(2022-06-02) (aged 85) Strathalbyn, South Australia |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Australian |
Brian Matthews (1936–2022) was an Australian literary scholar, biographer and short story writer.
He is considered Australia's foremost scholar of Henry Lawson and Lawson's mother Louisa.
Life and career
Matthews was born in St Kilda, Victoria on 27 December 1936.[1] He was educated at De La Salle College and Melbourne University.[2] He took a BA with a major in English and later an MA on Henry Lawson under the direction of Vincent Buckley.
After teaching in various schools in the 1950s and 1960s, he moved to Adelaide in 1967 to work at Bedford Park Teachers' College, but soon joined the new English Department at Flinders University. He taught English and Australia