Kenneth Cook

Birth : 1929-05-05, Lakemba, Sydney, Australia

Death : 1987-04-18

History

Kenneth Cook was an Australian journalist, television documentary maker, and novelist best known for his works Wake in Fright, which is still in print five decades after its first publication, and the humorous Killer Koala trilogy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenneth Cook, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies

Wake in Fright
Wake in Fright
Novel
Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney, but as one night stretches into several he plunges headlong into his own destruction.
Fear Is the Rider
Fear Is the Rider
Book
John Shaw, a photojournalist arrives in Australia trying to recover from his experiences reporting on the Vietnam War. After meeting a young woman in a small-town bar, he decides to detour into the Outback to photograph cave paintings. Out there, under the baking sun, people can die within hours. But the elements are not the most hazardous thing in the bush, and Shaw and his mysterious companion soon find themselves caught up in an unrelenting fight for survival.