Background
Peter Carey was born on May 7, 1943 in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia.
Peter Carey was born on May 7, 1943 in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia.
Peter Carey studied science at Monash University (Melbourne) and worked in advertising in Melbourne and Sydney. In 1990 he moved to New York.
Carey's first two collections of short stories, The Fat Man in History (1974) and War Crimes (1979), are bleak and pessimistic, highly political, and socially conscious. These works were republished in Collected Stories (1994).
In 1985 Peter Carey married theatre director Alison Summers.