Steven Carroll has worked as an English teacher, musician, playwright and theatre critic. His books include Remember Me, Jimmy James; Momoko and The Love Song of Lucy McBride, and it was after these novels were published that Steven gave up his lecturing post at RMIT to write full time. His critically acclaimed novel The Art of the Engine Driver was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2002.
Steven’s latest novel is The Gift of Speed. It returns to some of the characters from The Art of Engine Driver and takes up the story of 16-year old Michael during the summer of 1960-61, when the West Indies cricket team toured Australia. The novel has been described as 'a quintessentially Australian story of a boy, a suburb, and a summer of cricket and dreams'. |
