Clive James was born in Sydney in 1939. He was educated at the Univeristy of Sydney where he was literary editor of Honi Soit and wrote for various university magazines. He was a contemporary of Germaine Greer and Robert Hughes.
After graduating he worked for a time for the Sydney Morning Herald before departing for England in 1962 where he has lived ever since. James attended Cambridge University and received a second degree. Since then he has earned his living as a journalist, poet, novelist and reviewer. From 1972 to 1982 he was the respected television critic for The Observer. He has published three volumes of these reviews: Visions Before Midnight, The Crystal Bucket, and Glued to the Box. In recent years he has appeared in a series of television programs examining modern culture and television. James most famous works form a three-part autobiography: Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England and May Week was in June.
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