Doug BuckleyThe versatile Doug Buckley is a fifth generation Australian with a strong convict heritage. He was born in country New South Wales and grew up mainly in Broken Hill. As well as lecturing in engineering at universities in Australia, Japan and Europe from an academic base at the University of New South Wales, he has worked widely as a professional engineer in research, planning, construction and finance. His memoir Fragments From a Forgettory was well received. Amongst his long and short fiction, the novel One Black Bureaucrat Moves On was short-listed for the ABC Bicentennial Literary Award. Doug and his English-born wife Rosemary have enjoyed three children, a remarkable twenty-five grandchildren and great-grandchildren and near a dozen of their husbands and wives. Doug and Rosemary live in Sydney in what passes for retirement where they are part of a lively, growing Christian congregation. Read More Read Less