Author
She is the author of a biography of her great-grandmother, writer Barbara Baynton, titled Barbara Baynton – between two worlds.
Read more about this topic: Penne Hackforth-Jones
Famous quotes containing the word author:
“I’ve gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground.”
—Marvin Cohen, U.S. author and humorist. Baseball the Beautiful, Links Books (1970)
“The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
““Have we any control over being born?,” my friend asked in despair. “No, the job is done for us while we’re sleeping, so to speak, and when we wake up everything is all set. We merely appear, like an ornate celebrity wheeled out in a wheelchair.” “I don’t remember,” my friend claimed. “No need to,” I said: “what need have us free-loaders for any special alertness? We’re done for.””
—Marvin Cohen, U.S. author and humorist. The Self-Devoted Friend, New Directions (1967)