Clive James is the author of more than thirty books, including four previous volumes of autobiography, Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England, May Week was in June and North Face of Soho. In 1992 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia and in 2003 he was awarded the Philip Hodgins memorial medal for literature.
Clive James is an intellectual as well as a joker, a wise man as well as a wit. * Observer *