David Marr

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Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.Eminent Australian journalist, author, and progressive political and social commentator. David Marr is the multi-award-winning author of Patrick White: A Life, Panic and The High Price of Heaven, and co- author with Marian Wilkinson of Dark Victory. He has written for the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, The Saturday Paper, The Guardian Australia and the Monthly. He has been editor of the National Times, a reporter for Four Corners and presenter of ABC TV’s Media Watch. He is also the author of two previous bestselling biographical Quarterly Essays: Power Trip: The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd and Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott. His areas of expertise include Australian politics, law, censorship, the media and the arts. David Marr began his career in 1973 and is the recipient of four Walkley awards for journalism. He also appears as a semi-regular panellist on the ABC television programs Q&A and Insiders.

  • Primary profession
  • Actor·camera_department
  • Country
  • Australia
  • Nationality
  • Australian
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 19 January 1945
  • Place of birth
  • Woodford· London
  • Death date
  • 1980-11-17
  • Death age
  • 35
  • Place of death
  • Cambridge· Massachusetts
  • Education
  • Sydney Law School·University of Sydney·Trinity College· Cambridge
  • Knows language
  • English language

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Took 2 acting classes at Pasadena City College. Another student in the same two classes was Abby Wilde who would later be on Zoey 101 and iCarly as the character Stacey Dillsen.

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