Background
He was born in Australia, but spent some of his early life in Papua New Guinea.
( A mother who invented her past, a father who was often ...)
A mother who invented her past, a father who was often absent, a son who wondered if this could really be his family...Richard Glover's favourite dinner-party game is called 'Who's Got the Weirdest Parents?' It's a game he always thinks he'll win. There was his mother, a deluded snob who made up large swathes of her past and who ran away with Richard's English teacher, a Tolkien devotee, nudist and stuffed toy collector. There was his father, a distant alcoholic who ran through a gamut of wives, yachts and failed dreams. And there was Richard himself, a confused teenager, vulnerable to strange men, trying to find a family he could belong to. As he eventually accepted, the only way to make sense of the present was to go back to the past - but beware of what you might find there. Truth can leave wounds - even if they are only flesh wounds. Part poignant family memoir, part rollicking venture into a 1970s Australia, this is a book for anyone who's wondered if their family is the oddest one on the planet. The answer: no. There is always something stranger out there.
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He was born in Australia, but spent some of his early life in Papua New Guinea.
Glover graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts degree with first class honours.
He lives with the playwright Debra Oswald and they have two sons. He has written 13 books, including the humour book Desperate Husbands, which was a bestseller in Australia and has been published in translation in Italy and Poland. Glover presents the radio show Drive from Monday to Friday, 3pm to 6 pm on 702 American Broadcasting Company Sydney.
He joined 702 American Broadcasting Company Sydney in January 1996, taking over the Drive segment from Mike Carlton.
Glover"s writing for the stage includes Lonestar Lemon, which has toured nationally with Genevieve Lemon, and A Christmas Story, which premiered at the Sydney Opera House Drama Theatre in December 1998, with Richard Wherrett directing. Glover is also a journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald.
His weekly humour column has appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald since 1985. He has also worked as that paper"s news editor, arts editor and European correspondent.
A leaked document revealed Glover was the highest paid American Broadcasting Company broadcaster in 2013, earning $290,000 per year.
( A mother who invented her past, a father who was often ...)