Background
Roger Vaughan Carr was born on November 6, 1937, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was a son of Albert James Carr, a cattle rancher, and Rita Mandeville Carr (maiden name Halls), a bookshop owner.
90 Outer Cres, Brighton VIC 3186, Australia
Roger Vaughan Carr studied at Brighton Grammar School.
(The beautiful picture book by Roger Vaughan Carr and awar...)
The beautiful picture book by Roger Vaughan Carr and award-winning Ann James portrays tells the theory of the butterfly effect in a simple yet informative way
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2014
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Roger Vaughan Carr was born on November 6, 1937, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was a son of Albert James Carr, a cattle rancher, and Rita Mandeville Carr (maiden name Halls), a bookshop owner.
Roger Vaughan Carr was a boarder student of Brighton Grammar School in Melbourne. He finished Frankston High School in 1952.
The start of Roger Vaughan Carr’s writing career can be counted from his short story published in the issue of Bulletin magazine in 1957. The next Carr’s adolescent novel which became a success, ‘Surfie’, came in 1966.
Some three decades after ‘Surfie’, Carr has continued to produce a number of well-received adventure novels for teenagers. He collaborated as an author with the Victorian School Paper.
At the end of the decade, Carr tried his hand as a screenwriter scripting for the ABC drama ‘Bellbird’ and sketching for ‘In Melbourne Tonight’ show. During the 1970s, Roger Vaughan Carr adopted his book ‘Dead Man's Float’ for television creating a screenplay for it. One of the most known books of Carr, ‘Firestorm!’, was based on the true happenings of the terrible bush fires in Victoria and South Australia on Ash Wednesday, 1983, which the author and his family survived. The book was dedicated to those children who died.
In addition to his writing activity, Roger Vaughan Carr was also founder and owner of Ekidna Interactive, producer of educational CD-ROM programs. The writer took an active part at the Airey's Inlet community.
(The beautiful picture book by Roger Vaughan Carr and awar...)
2014(A book illustrated by Margie Chellew)
1996(A book illustrated by Julie Davey.)
1990(A book illustrated by Craig Smith)
2001Quotations: "Horses, track and field, and Australian Rules football were my consuming interests into my late teens. Other major influences were American hit-parade songs of the late 1940s and 1950s, the all-pervasive American culture that saturated us, and in fact satisfied us. We identified strongly with the United States following World War II and the great numbers of American service people in our country on recreation and rehabilitation leave. Another influence was our country’s early pioneers. We were Australians and proud of it, but we had strong American and English ties from our pioneers, who had come from, mostly England, but America, too."
Roger Vaughan Carr had a wife named Patricia. They had four children named Abel, Field, Macquarie and Virginia.