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Max Williams
Max Williams was born in Redfern, Sydney, where he spent a very deprived childhood, during the 1930s Depression, had his first brush with the law at the age of five and at the age of ten was committed to an institution for wayward boys. He spent most of the next thirty years in prison. He has contributed to Poems From Prison (1973) and Australians Aware (1975), both edited by Rodney Hall, and to Poet's Choice. He has also published three collections, The Poor Man's Bean (1975), Hard Is The Convict's Road (1977) and Baronda (1977), and has written an autobiography, Dingo! My Life on the Run (1980).
~ The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature