Julian Croft
| Emeritus Professor Julian Croft BA (NSW) MA (Newcastle) |
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| Born | Julian Charles Basset Croft 31 May 1941 Merewether, New South Wales |
| Occupation | academic |
| Language | English |
| Citizenship | Australian |
| Education | Newcastle Boys High School, New South Wales |
| Alma mater | University of New South Wales (BA 1961), University of Newcastle, Australia (MA 1968) |
| Genre | biographer, anthologist and editor, poet, novelist, lyricist |
Julian Croft (born 31 May 1941) is an Australian poet and Emeritus Professor of English, University of New England. He was a founder of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature and co-edited its journal, Notes and Furphies for many years. In addition to gathering prizes for his published poems, he is known for his studies of his teacher, T. Harri Jones and Joseph Furphy (Tom Collins).
Julian Charles Basset Croft was born 31 May 1941 in Merewether, a beachside suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, the son of Jack Croft and his wife Florence Helena née Champion.
He was educated at Newcastle Boys' High School.
He was graduated Bachelor of Arts by the University of New South Wales in 1961.
From 1961 until 1962 he worked for the Australian Commonwealth Film Unit as a production assistant.
Between 1964 and 1967, he was a research assistant at the University of Newcastle and on 15 March 1968, he was graduated Master of Arts by the University of Newcastle after he had submitted his dissertation, "The concepts of time, history, and memory in the poetry of Kenneth Slessor and R.D. Fitzgerald" to the Department of English. His researches resulted in T.H.Jones (Writers of Wales, 1976), The Collected Poems of T. Harri Jones (1977, with Don Dale-Jones) and Robert D. Fitzgerald (1987, UQP Australian Authors Series).
In 1967, he married Loretta Ruth Amelia De Plevitz. His first novel, Their Solitary Way (1985), tells the story of the failure of this marriage with separate versions "emphasising the innate incompatibilities of the two". The marriage was dissolved in 1978.
On completion of his master's degree, he travelled in Europe and Africa. From 1968 to 1970, he was a lecturer at Fourah Bay College (then part of the University of Sierra Leone) in Freetown, Sierra Leone living on campus
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