Background
Usher's father was American, and his mother was Australian. He grew up in Melbourne, where he studied law before taking up journalism. He now lives in Extremadura, Spain.
He is a former chief sub-editor of The Sunday Times in London and a former literary editor of The Age in Melbourne. Until 2001 he was senior writer for Time magazine in Europe. Most of his working life has involved journalism, including ten years on Fleet Street, though he has also published several works of non-fiction, two collections of poetry and three novels.
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