Craig McGregor

McGregor went to Cranbrook School, Sydney,[1] leaving at 16 to work at the Sydney Morning Herald[2] before studying arts at the University of Sydney.

He has written books on Australian society, politics and popular culture, as well as two novels and a collection of short stories. He wrote the script for a section of the 1973 film Libido and co-wrote the 1976 rock opera Hero. He has won two Walkley Awards for Journalism: in 1977 for Best Newspaper Feature Story, and in 1986 for Best Feature in a Newspaper or Magazine.[3] He met and interviewed Bob Dylan during his 1966 tour of Australia, and later edited the book Bob Dylan: A retrospective. He has his own entry in The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia.[4]

He is Emeritus Professor of Visual Communication at the University of Technology, Sydney, where he taught between 1988 and 2000.

• Profile of Australia (1966)
• The High Country (1967)
• People, Politics and Pop (1968)
• To Sydney with Love (1968)
• In the Making: Australian Art and Artists (1969)
• Don't Talk to Me about Love (a novel, 1973)
• Bob Dylan: A retrospective (editor) (1972)
• Life in Australia (editor) (1972)
• Up Against the Wall, America (1973)
• The Great Barrier Reef (1974)
• The See-through Revolver (a novel, 1977)
• The History of Surfing (1983)
• Soundtrack for the Eighties (1983)
• Time of Testing: The Bob Hawke Victory (1983)
• Pop Goes the Culture (1984)
• Real Lies (short stories, 1987)
• Headliners (1990)
• Class in Australia (1997)
• Australian Son: Inside Mark Latham (2004)
• Left Hand Drive: A Social and Political Memoir (2013)[5]