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Alan Moorehead

8 July 2017

9:00 AM

8 July 2017

9:00 AM

He left Melbourne in 1936 to become a famous writer, and he did. Not just a famous writer but a good one. Alan Moorehead had really made it when he was felled by a stroke; one of the great communicators of his age, at only 56, he was cruelly rendered incapable of communicating.

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