The collection comprises correspondence, articles and typescript drafts of stories, reviews and other papers relating to Knight's book, "The selling of the Australian mind" (1990) and his collections of crime short stories, including "Dead witness" (1989), "Crimes for a summer Christmas" (1990) and "A corpse at the opera house" (1992). There is also an unpublished manuscript entitled "Radical Reader 2". The correspondents include Michael Wilding, Raymond Southall, Peter Corris, Steve Wright, Janette Turner Hospital, Martin Long, Robert Hood, Mudrooroo, Caroline Lurie and Allen & Unwin.
Academic and writer. Stephen Knight was a lecturer at the University of Sydney, Australian National University, and the University of Melbourne. Returned to England in 1992 to take up chair at the De Montfort University, Leicester.
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