A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a Literary Life by Jacqueline Kent

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly at tail edge. Dust jacket has creasing at edges and at spine. Interior and binding are still very good.

Beatrice Davis (1909-1992) was general editor at Angus & Robertson, the leading Australian publishing company, from 1937 to 1973. There she discovered and published such writers as Thea Astley, Miles Franklin, Patricia Wrightson, Xavier Herbert and Hal Porter, becoming a literary tastemaker in the process. A central figure in Australian literature, respected, feared, courted and berated. (Trove)