Barry WestburgBarry Westburg was born in Iowa, but as a boy migrated to California, where in later years he worked as a salesman, postman, car park attendant, security patrolman, steeplejack, and removalist, until his appointment as a statistician on the Apollo monrocket project, under Wernher von Braun. He attended California and Ivy League universities, before eventually moving to New York to teach literature and writing. He arrived in Australia, once again a migrant, on the last day of the Whitlam government, and since then has taught contemporary American fiction and film at the University of Adelaide. He lives beside a gloomy woodland tarn in the Adelaide Hills - with assorted pets, ambient wildlife, a C# didjeridu and a veterinarian. Read More Read Less