Book Show 2008-11-20
The Book Show
The Book Show is ABC Radio National's home for the discussion of everything relating to the written word. This daily program will explore the many worlds in which we find readers and writers, publishers and booksellers, playwrights and lyricists, bloggers and journalists, book illustrators and type designers -- all working with words and the medium of language.
Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography
Professor Jill Roe has produced a substantial biography of Stella Miles Franklin, the author of My Brilliant Career, who left a legacy that's remembered every year in the Miles Franklin Award for Australian Writing. It's the story of a feisty and smart young woman who had early literary success and who made a career in agitating for women's and workers' rights and in journalism. It's also a story of amazing application to the task of writing, whether the wo... 
