Peter fitzsimons biography

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    Peter FitzSimons

    Australian author, commentator, radio and television presenter

    Peter John FitzSimons[1]AM (born 29 June ) is an Australian author, journalist, and radio and television presenter. He is a former national representative rugby union player and was the chair of the Australian Republic Movement from to [2]

    Early life

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    FitzSimons grew up in Peats Ridge,[3] in the Central Coast of New South Wales. He was one of seven children. He attended Peats Ridge Public School and Knox Grammar School before going in to Findlay High School, Ohio,[4] for a year as an exchange student on an American Field Service Scholarship. He then completed an arts degree at the University of Sydney,[5] residing at Wesley College from to [6]

    Career

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    Rugby

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    FitzSimons first played club rugby with the Sydney University Football Club and then with the Manly RUFC in Sydney in the s under the coaching of Alan Jones.

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    Peter FitzSimons

    Peter FitzSimons AM is Australia's bestselling non-fiction writer, and for the past 38 years has also been a reporter and columnist with the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD and the SUN-HERALD.

    He is the author of a number of highly successful books, including BREAKER MORANT, BURKE AND WILLS, MONASH'S MASTERPIECE, KOKODA, NED KELLY and GALLIPOLI, as well as biographies of such notable Australians as Sir Douglas Mawson, Nancy Wake and John Eales. His passion is to tell Australian stories, our own stories: of great men and women, of stirring events in our history.

    Peter grew up on a farm north of Sydney, went to boarding school in Sydney and attended Sydney University. An ex-Wallaby, he also lived for several years in rural France and Italy, playing sport for regional clubs. He and his wife, Lisa Wilkinson AM - reporter, magazine editor and television presenter - have three children; they live in Sydney.

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    About the Author

    Peter John FitzSimons is an Australian journalist and writer, born on June 29, in Wahroonga, New South Wales. He studied government and political science at the University of Sydney and earned a degree in arts. In the s to he played rugby. For two years () he was a radio show more co-host with Mike Carlton of the Breakfast with Mike and Fitz show. He is journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald. His twenty-seven books include Tobruk, Kokoda, Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men, A Simpler Time, Mawson, Batavia, Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution, Ned Kelly, Gallipoli, Fromelles and Pozieres: In the Trenches of Hell, and has written seven biographies. Victory at Villers-Bretonneux was published in November The Great Aussie Bloke Slim-Down is his most recent bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography)show less

    Includes the names: P. Fitzsimons, Peter FitzSimons, Peter Fitzsimmons

    Works by Peter FitzSimons

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