The Scarecrow: Text Classics

Ronald Hugh Morrieson was born in Hawera, New Zealand, in 1922, and lived there all his life. He earned his living as a music teacher and musician, playing in dance bands throughout South Taranaki. Morrieson died in 1972. His other novels are Came a Hot Friday, Predicament and Pallet on the Floor.

Craig Sherborne’s memoir Hoi Polloi was shortlisted for the Queensland and Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. The follow-up, Muck, won the Queensland Literary Award for Non-fiction. Sherborne’s debut novel, The Amateur Science of Love, won the Best Writing Prize in the 2012 Melbourne Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the NSW and Victorian Premiers’ Awards. He has also written two volumes of poetry, and his journalism and poetry have appeared in most of Australia’s leading literary journals and anthologies. His two most recent novels are Tree Palace, shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and Off the Record.