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Steven Carroll was born in Melbourne and grew up in Glenroy.  He went to La Trobe University and taught English in high schools before playing in bands in the 1970s. After leaving the music scene, he began writing as a playwright and became the theatre critic for The Sunday Age. He has recently given up his lecturing post at the RMIT to write full time and lives in Brunswick, Victoria. 



His novels The Art of the Engine Driver and The Gift of Speed were both shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. The Time We Have Taken won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, as well as the 2008 Miles Franklin Award.



Some of Steven Carroll's books: