McAuley, James

James Phillip McAuley was born in Autralia 1917 and died in his prime in 1976. At the University of Sydney he was the outstanding intellectual figure of his generation, distinguishing himself as a conversationalist, poet, jazz pianist, drinker, and bohemian. In 1956, he combined his interest in public affairs and art when he became the first editor of "Quadrant", the Australian organ of the anti-communist Association for Cultural Freedom. His poetry continued to develop when he moved back into academia at the University of Tasmania.