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Robert Gray
Biography
Robert Gray was born in Coffs Harbour, a small town on the north coast of New South Wales.Robert gray personal life
In the 1970s, he settled in Sydney, where he still lives. His love of the countryside of his native region, his interest in poetry, Zen-Buddhism and painting formed early on a counterweight to his precarious family situation, about which he writes for the first time – frankly and with much humour – in his autobiographical prose work A Light in the Porch(due to appear later in 2008).
His father, an alcoholic and a disillusioned intellectual, was banished from Sydney by his well-to-do family to a small banana plantation in ‘the distant north’, a plantation which, after he had laboriously farmed it for a few years, he lost in a wager when Robert Gray was about ten years old.
His mother, on the other hand, a farmer’s daughter from the area, was an enthusiastic member of the local Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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