Joseph Furphy

Joseph Furphy (born Sept. 26, 1843, Yering, near Yarra Glen, Vic., Australia—died Sept. 13, 1912, Claremont, W. Aus., Australia) was an Australian author whose novels combine an acute sense of local Australian life and colour with the eclectic philosophy and literary ideas of a self-taught workingman. The son of Irish immigrants, Furphy worked as a thresher, teamster, and gold miner before settling down in 1884 at his brothers’ foundry at Shepparton. There he wrote a...