Education
He attended state school in Sydney, and later Sydney Technical College, where he studied agriculture.
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Peter Mathers
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Mathers" family emigrated to Australia while he was a child. He "farmed, clerked, woolled, gardened, landscaped, chemicalled", and did other things before settling into his writing career. From 1964 he worked in Britain and Europe as a researcher
His first writing appeared in the early 1960s, and in 1967 he took up a writing fellowship in the United States.
He returned to Australia in 1968. Mathers completed his first novel, Trap, in 1966.
His second novel, The Wort Papers (1972), ranged across the country in rural settings from the Kimberley to dairy country in northern New South Wales, and further established his reputation as a stylistic innovator and satirist. Mathers wrote radio plays, articles and published many stories in magazines, journals and newspapers before beginning a substantial playwriting career.
He lived in Melbourne for many years prior to his death in 2004.
