WEST AUSTRALIANA

Ron Davidson was born into a newspaper family in Perth, Western Australia, and, at age eight, was introduced to Fremantle by his editor-father who gave him an idiosyncratic slant on the port city. The same year a school friend showed him life in a noisy lumpers’ pub in High Street, run by his father. This early fascination with Fremantle was lasting. He has lived in the same heritage-listed house in Fremantle for thirty years. Ron has worked as a journalist in Australia and overseas, and taught social psychology at the University of Western Australia. His published works include The Divided Kingdom, with Connie Ellement (1987), High Jinks at the Hot Pool (1993), and Anything But Ordinary, with Cecile Dorwood (2000); 287 p. : ill., 1 map ; 20 cm. #0218/0320/1020/0921/110122/270723