Randolph Stow (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Julian Randolph Stow was born in Western Australia, where his father was a lawyer. The largely autobiographical novel The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea gives an account of his childhood experiences there. His first novel, A Haunted Land, and most of the poems in Act One were written while he was an undergraduate at the University of Western Australia. He spent his years there studying English and French literature and avidly reading in other European literatures. The reading of these years shows in a number of his novels, but especially in the rich allusiveness of To...
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