George Johnston
George Johnston was an acclaimed Australian author and journalist, best known for his semi-autobiographical novel "My Brother Jack." Born in 1912, he began his career in journalism before transitioning to fiction, capturing post-war Australian life with keen insight. Johnston's work often explored themes of identity and personal conflict. His literary achievements, alongside his wife Charmian Clift, left a significant impact on Australian literature before his passing in 1970.
Book summaries for books written by George Johnston
Quotes
I was there when my brother Jack died. I was there when he was born.
I've seen him in the grip of love and I've seen him in the grip of hate, and I've seen him in the grip of a dozen different passions.
I know how he must have felt. I've been through it all myself. I've been through all the expressions of love and hate and sorrow and joy that Jack knew, and I've been through them all at first hand.
He never was at peace until he died.
There were a lot of people in the house, and they were all talking at once. But I remember thinking that something had changed when Jack died.
I've always had a feeling that I was his father as well as his brother.
He was a very strange man, my brother Jack. He was born into the world to be a soldier.
He was a man of peace, and he never knew it.
I've had to live with the fact that I was born to be his brother.
He wanted to die as soon as he saw the world, and he wanted to live as soon as he saw it was his own.
He was a man who never knew what he wanted, and he got it.
I've never seen anyone who could change his mind as completely as Jack could, and as often.