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Drusilla Modjeska('Bodying Forth', p.7z) is an essayist andnovelist whose book Straains@'s Lunchwon the Australian Literature SocietyGold Medal in zooo. Her new novel,The Mountain, will be published in May zoIz.

Jack Marx('Line of Appeal', p.78) is a WalkleyAward-winning journalist and the authorof Australian Tragic : Gripping Ta lesJrom t he D ark

Side o!our History and Sorry: The WrttchedTaleoJ Li t t I e S t ea i e Wrigh t.

Andrew Ford('What Happened Next', p.86) is an award-winning composer, writer and broadcaster.His books include The Sound o-f Pictures: Listen-

ingto the Moaiesfrom Hilchc\ck t0 High Fidelit!and In Delence ojClassical Music.

John Collee('Taking to the Woods', p.Sz) is a Sydney-based screenwriter and novelist. His filmsinclude Happy Feet, Master and Commander,

Creation and. Paper Mask He is currently setto direct his first feature, Black Honeymoon.

ContributorsGailJones('The Legend ofJandamarra', p.r4) is anovelist, short-story writer and professor atthe University of Western Sydney. I-Ier mostrecent novel is Fiue Bells.

Anne Summers('The Bolt Factor', p.r8) is the formcr cditorof CoodWeehend and Ms. magazines. Hermost recent books are The Lost Mother, On Luck

and The End of Equality.

KateJennings('Water Under the Bridge', p.34) is theauthor of Tro u b I e : S e I e ct e d Wri t i n gs r g Z o - 2 o r o,the memoir Stanley and Sophle, the novelsSnake and Moral Hazard, and Qrarterl.lEssay 3 e,'American Revolution'.

Peter Robb('Fathers & Sons', p.58) is the author ofMidnight in Sici!, M, A Death in Brazil andStreet FightinNaplu. M,his book aboutCaravaggio, a Neu Tork Timu Notable Bookand a bestseller in America and Italv. is

being reissued in the UK.

Gail Bell('Prcscribing Behaviour', p.l8) has workedas a pharmacist, educator and writer. Herbooks include The Poison Principlc and Shot:

A Personal Ruponse to Guns andTruuma.

Peter Conrad('Qycen of the Night', p.64) is a regularcontributor to the Obseruer. His booksinclude Vcrdi and f or Wagner, The Art oJ t h e C i ty

and ModcrnTimes, Mofum Places.

Louis Nowra('Bowing to the Bard', p.76) is an author,screenwriter and plal'wright. His booksinclude a novel, I cc, and a memoir, The

Taclfth o-fNeucr. I{e is the co-winner of theloog NSW Premier's Script Writing Awardfor FirstAustralians.

Don Watson('Commcnt', p.8) is a lormer spccch-writer for Paul Keating. His books includeDcath Senttnct: The Decay ofPublic Language,

Re colkctions ola Ble e ding Heart: A Portrait o-f

Paul Kc ating P M and Amtric an J ourney.

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Drusilla Modjeska Jack Marx Andrew Ford John Collee Gail Joncs

Covrr: Cate Blanchett in Sydney Theatre Company's Ihe War o-f the RoslJ, 2oog. Photographer thnia Kcllcl'. O Svdncl'Thcatrc Company

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