Francis Ravel HarveyJournalist and author, Francis Ravel Harvey was born at Homebush, New South Wales in 1930 and began his career as a cadet journalist on (the now extinct) Sun newspaper in 1947. In 1950 he worked for almost ten years as producer of the independent monhly music journal The Canon. He worked as a freelance journalist in the live theatre in Sydney, wrote scripts for the ABCs Tales of Many Lands, and founded his own monthly magazine Theatregoer. He was theatre critic for the Canberra Times in the 70s and published the first theatre yearbook for the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust (1959-60).He worked as an editor and writer for Horwitz Publications and Ure Smith, founding the first magazine in Australia on industrial design, Design Australia, for the Industrial Design Council of Australia, which was commended by the late Duke of Edinburgh. He edited various trade magazines for Horwitz in the bookselling, food and restaurant industries.Mr Harvey worked as a senior journalist with the departments of Health and Social Security in Canberra, editing the quarterly journal Health which he founded, and then transferred to Sydney as a Senior Project Officer for the Australia Council, editing the magazine Artforce, producing annual reports and advocating for the arts through lectures. He remained with the Australia Council for eight years, producing publications, exhibitions and seminars. From 1981 he spent ten years as head of the Information and Publications Unit at Macquarie University, from which he retired in 1991. In 2012 he published Traveller to Freedom the life of ex-priest Roger Pryke. Having recently completed Doppelgänger, he published an Audiobook Memories of an Orphan Boy in 2023. He holds a Masters in Literature and Public History at the University of Sydney and is a member of ASA. Read More Read Less