Author: Capp, Fiona.
Title: Writers Defiled (Security Surveillance of Australian Authors and Intellectuals 1920 - 1960).
Description: Melbourne McPhee Gribble / Penguin Books, 1993. Paperback octavo, good condition, black & white photos centre spread, pages & inside cover toned as usual, top edge little foxed, minor edgewear. 239 pp. A first report on ASIO surveillance of Australian writers with communist sympathies, which until now has remained largely unknown. This spying was a combination of farcical and serious. Revelals ASIO files on Frank Hardy, Dorothy Hewett, Katherine Susanah Prichard, Manning Clark, Judah Waten, Alan Marshall, Jean Devanny, Clem and Nina Christesen, Stephen Murray-Smith and Vance Palmer. ISBN: 0869143387

Keywords: literature, authors, writers, australian government, military, espionage, politics, communism, asio 0869143387


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