Roger McDonald is the author of nine novels, two works of non-fiction, and a number of other works.
Background
The middle son of a Presbyterian minister, Hugh Fraser McDonald, and the Central Queensland historian, Doctor Lorna McDonald, his childhood was spent in the NSW country towns of Bribbaree, Temora, and Bourke, before the family moved to Sydney.
Education
He attended The Scots College and the University of Sydney.
Career
He was briefly a teacher, American Broadcasting Company producer, and publisher"s editor in NSW, Tasmania, and Queensland, before moving to Canberra and taking up writing full-time in 1976, in order to complete his first novel, 1915. McDonald has since 1980 lived near Braidwood, NSW, apart from periods in Sydney and New Zealand. His novels are 1915, Slipstream, Rough Wallaby, Water Manitoba, The Slap, Mr Darwin"s Shooter, The Ballad of Desmond Kale, When Colts Ran and The Following.
Non-fiction: Shearers" Motel and The Tree In Changing Light.
In 1982 it was made into a seven-part American Broadcasting Company-television television series. (Scripting: Peter Yeldham)
lieutenant was filmed as "Cross Turning Over" for American Broadcasting Company-television in 1996 (Director: Robert Klenner)
His ninth novel, The Following, was published in 2013.