by Sue Woolfe
Apart from ‘Passport’, all the other characters and their doings in all the other stories are entirely fictional, and if they bear any resemblance to anyone living or dead, that is purely coincidental.
I’d like to thank Linda Funnell, who I hope will always be my first editor; Larissa Edwards, Roberta Ivers and Anna O’Grady of Simon & Schuster Australia, and Kim Swivel, who showed a unique belief in the short story and lavished care and attention on mine. I’d also like to thank my agent, Rick Raftos, for advice so good I dare not follow it, and my friend Libby Hathorn for spending several mornings at a café poring over ‘The List-maker’. Nothing would be possible without the quiet encouragement of my life partner and fellow-writer Gordon Graham, and my daughter Kitty.
Sue Woolfe
More About the Author
Sue Woolfe has worked as a teacher and lecturer, TV subtitle editor, documentary maker and cook. She is the author of the bestselling novel about mathematics and motherhood, Leaning Towards Infinity: How My Mother’s Apron Unfolds Into My Life, published in five countries and described in the Baltimore Sun as ‘the deepest novel of ideas in years’, and by Fay Weldon as ‘glorious’. It won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in 1996 and was shortlisted for many other prizes, including the Commonwealth Prize and the prestigious US TipTree Prize, and she re-wrote it for the professional stage.
Her novel Painted Woman, about a woman coming of age as an artist, was first published in Australia in 1989, and in translation as Ici et à jamais in France in 2008. It has also been produced twice as a play, and also as a radio play. The Secret Cure, a novel concerned with a mother’s determined search for a cure for autism, is currently being adapted to an opera by Woolfe. Her most recent novel, The Oldest Song in the World, is set in the Northern Territory in an Indigenous community, after Woolfe lived there for over a year.
Woolfe has also co-authored with Kate Grenville Making Stories: How Ten Australian Novels Were Written in 1993, and in 2007 she wrote The Mystery of the Cleaning Lady: A Writer Looks at Creativity and Neuroscience. She has written one script for TV, a comedy that won an AWGIE (1985).
Woolfe teaches at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) and at annual writing retreats overseas, emphasising what neuroscience tells us about creativity. She writes in a hideaway on the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales, which she shares with her partner, playwright Gordon Graham, but most evenings in the city, she dances Argentine Tango.
Also by Sue Woolfe
Painted Woman (1989)
Making Stories: How Ten Australian Novels Were Written, with Kate Grenville (1993)
Leaning Towards Infinity: How My Mother’s Apron Unfolds Into My Life (1996)
Wild Minds: Stories Of Outsiders And Dreamers (1999)
The Secret Cure (2003)
The Mystery of the Cleaning Lady: A Writer Looks at Creativity and Neuroscience (2007)
The Oldest Song in the World (2012)
DO YOU LOVE ME OR WHAT?
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry
Creator:
Woolfe, Sue, author.
Title:
Do you love me or what?/Sue Woolfe.
ISBN:
9781925533286 (hardback)
9781925533293 (ebook)
Subjects:
Short stories, Australian.
Dewey Number:
A823.3
Cover design: Alissa Dinallo
Cover image: Steven J Gelberg/Trevillion Images
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