FAVOURITES
“ … Mark … Henry … Walter … “
Dear Boss,
Who are your favourite writers and why?
-Sandy O’Mara, Wyoming, USA.
REPLY: The American, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) … because of his spontaneous humour, natural honesty and freedom of expression in all that he wrote.
The Australian, Henry Lawson … for the same reasons and leaving with succeeding generations , via his prose and verse, his powers of observation and description, and the sharing of his humanistic spirit.
The Scottish-Australian, Professor Walter Murdoch … for his wonderful, simply-written essays and his ability to reduce the heights of philosophical muse to ordinary, everyday language.
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