Gary Forrester
| Gary Jeshel Forrester | |
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Forrester at Wellington Harbour, 2012
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3 July 1946 Decatur, Illinois, United States |
| Occupation | Musician, writer, public servant, academic, lawyer, organic farmer |
| Genre | Novels, poetry, short stories, memoirs, bluegrass |
| Literary movement | Metamodernism |
| Children | Sam Harding Forrester, Joseph Harding Forrester, Lucy Jeshel McCallum, Georgette Brown (step-daughter), Charlotte Rose Forrester, Haz Forrester |
Gary Jeshel Forrester (born July 3, 1946) is a musician, composer, novelist, poet, short-story writer, memoirist, and academic, based in Rotorua, New Zealand. He was profiled by Random House Australia (Australian Country Music, 1991) as one of the major figures in the Australian music scene during the 1980s and 1990s, and in New Zealand by FishHead: Wellington's Magazine as a "modern Renaissance man." According to Fishhead, "in addition to publishing three novels and a book of poems, Forrester is a successful bluegrass composer and musician, an advocate for indigenous rights, and a father of six children. Oh, and don't forget his day job - law lecturer in ethics at Victoria University." He taught at the University of Melbourne from 1976 to 1980, at the Northwestern School of Law from 1983 to 1985, at Deakin University from 1991 to 1992, at the University of Illinois from 2000 to 2003, and at Victoria University of Wellington from 2007 to 2017.
Beginning in the 1980s, he represented Indian tribes in securing restoration legislation through the United States Congress; authored a text on American Indian law; and wrote numerous articles on the rights of indigenous peoples, the environment, civil procedure, and other legal topics.
Strangers To Us All: Lawyers and Poetry (featuring biographies and works of poets and writers who have a legal background) declared that "Forrester is a hard man to pigeon-hole. He has practiced law, taught law, and spent time away from the legal profession. He is a singer, musician, poet, and writer."
Forrester's musical compositions were recorded (under his "nom de guitar" Eddie Rambeaux) on the albums Dust on the Bible (RCA Records, 1987), Uluru (Larrikin Records, 1988) and Kamara (Troubadour Records, 1990). In 2015 and 2017, Forrester issued his first two solo albums, Alma Rose and Jeshel (Te Ahumairangi Records), featuring 20 new compositions and five cover songs.
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