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Author Fotheringham, Richard.

Title In search of Steele Rudd : author of the classic Dad & Dave stories / Richard Fotheringham
Published St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 1995

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 W'PONDS  827.02 R9145 Z/Foi  AVAILABLE
Description xii, 227 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, map, portraits ; 24 cm
Summary "In 1894 Arthur Hoey Davis, a young Brisbane public servant who dabbled in journalism, sat down to devise a nom de plume for his rowing column in the local newspaper. The by-line he chose was "Steele Rudd"." "The Sydney Bulletin began to publish his stories in 1895 and four years later his first book, On Our Selection, appeared. A comic writer of genius, he became Queensland's best known and most popular writer. His works were as widely read as those of Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson and C. J. Dennis." "The man behind the Rudd legend, however, has been largely hidden for over a century. Richard Fotheringham's biography provides startling new insights into Steele Rudd's life: about his determination to earn his living as a writer after his career in the public service came to an end, his troubled marriage, the poverty of his last years and, after his death in 1935, the appropriation of his work as Dad and Dave on radio and film, in cartoons and jokes."--BOOK JACKET
Analysis Authors, Australian Biography 20th century
Humorous stories, Australian History and criticism
Queensland Biography
Rudd, Steele
Authors, Australian - Biography
Rudd, Steele, - 1868-1935 - Biography
Notes CIP confirmed
Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 210-218
Notes Also available online (as at 4/10/2011) athttp://www.textqueensland.com.au/item/book/b545a40111836add1e1e2723b471675a
Subject Rudd, Steele, 1868-1935.
Authors, Australian -- Biography.
Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography.
Humorous stories, Australian -- History and criticism.
SUBJECT Queensland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79004089 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237
Genre/Form Biographies.
LC no. 95213510
ISBN 0702227781
0702228753 (paperback)