AustLit

'Seven Big Australians: Adventures with Comic Actors looks at the childhoods and careers of the pioneers of classic Australian comedy—Carol Raye, Barry Humphries, Noeline Brown, Max Gillies, John Clarke, Tony Sheldon, and Denise Scott. Each actor in this book, Pender explains, helped define the classic understanding of Aussie humour. Looking at Anne Pender’s previous work, she has extensive experience in interviewing personalities for biographies, and in particular, a complete biography of Barry Humphries (One Man Show: The Stages of Barry Humphries, 2010). (Introduction)