ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

My first thanks are to Adam, for everything. And then to the other people who spoke to me for this book, who filled in everything else. Thanks especially to the executors of Adam’s estate: Kevin Cullen and Jason Martin.

On a personal note, I thank David Marr. He was the first person I spoke to about writing this biography, and his sensible advice is woven through it.

Thank you to Margaret Fink for the courage I borrowed and the lines I stole. And to TV Moore, my adoptive brother, who told me not to write a dainty book. I hope I have managed.

Thank you to Tamara Dean for the photograph that has become this book’s cover, and to Helen Garner and Christos Tsiolkas for the kind words they put on it. Thanks also to Dale Frank for the conversation that became its prologue.

I have leant on the advice of a lot of people for this book – Kate Jennings, Brigid Delaney, Nick Feik, Josephine Tovey, Alice Gage, Nick O’Malley, Edie Atkins – and all have been invaluable. My family has been good, too. I wouldn’t be a writer without them.

Thank you to Chris Feik for believing this might be a book and, with Julian Welch, editing it to become one. And to Siân Scott-Clash for keeping it on track.

And, of course, Morry Schwartz: my boss, friend, and now publisher. I am endlessly grateful for his enthusiasm and envious of his energy.

Finally, to Penny Schofield, who taught shorthand to me and another two generations of journalists. Your lessons are on every page.