David Foster (novelist) educated at University of Sydney
Career
Scientific and early literary career
At the end of this degree, he went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States, to pursue postdoctoral studies at the Institute for Cancer Research at the University of Pennsylvania.
He began to write his first novellas, later published in North South West (1973). Back in Sydney in 1972, he worked as a research officer in the Department of Medicine at the University of Sydney before abandoning science for a career as a novelist. Since then, he has supported himself and his family through various jobs as a pool attendant, musician, postman, truck driver, martial arts instructor, and trawler fisherman. After the publication of North, South, West by Macmillan, Foster was awarded an Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship.
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