Percy Reginald Stephensen (1901–1965), by Edward Quicke, 1945
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Editor’s Note:
We are publishing this essay and the two that follow in commemoration of the birth of P. R. “Inky” Stephensen on November 20, 1901.
Percy Reginald Stephensen was one of Australia’s pre-eminent “men of letters” whose work includes biographies and short stories. Read more …
P. R. Stephensen
Percy Reginald Stephensen, painted by Robert Grothey, 1943
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Editor’s Note:
This is a much-expanded version of our previously-published essay on P. R. Stephensen.
Percy Reginald “Inky” Stephensen (1901–1965), was one of Australia’s pre-eminent “men of letters,” or “Australia’s wild man of letters” as one biographer referred to him.[1] Read more …