Bruce Beaver

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Bruce Beaver

Australian author

Also known as: Bruce Victor Beaver

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In full:: Bruce Victor Beaver

Born:: Feb. 14, 1928, Manly, N.S.W., Austl.

Died:: Feb. 17, 2004, Manly (aged 76)

Notable Works:: “Letters to Live Poets”; “The Hot Spring”; “You Can’t Come Back”

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Bruce Beaver (born Feb. 14, 1928, Manly, N.S.W., Austl.—died Feb. 17, 2004, Manly) was an Australian poet, novelist, and journalist noted for his experimental forms and courageous self-examination, both of which made him one of the major forces in Australian poetry during the 1960s and ’70s. At the age of 17 Beaver underwent the first of several periods of psychiatric treatment for manic depression. He worked at a variety of jobs before becoming a full-time freelance writer in 1964. While contributing reviews to Australian and New Zealand periodicals, he wrote the novels The Hot Spring (1965) and You Can’t Come ...(100 of 147 words)

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