Gary Forrester

Gary Jeshel Forrester is a musician, composer, novelist, poet, shortstory writer, memoirist, and academic. He was profiled by Random House Australia as one of the major figures in the Australian music scene during the 1980s and 1990s, and in New Zealand by FishHead Wellingtons Magazine as a modern Renaissance man. According to Fishhead, in addition to publishing three novels and a book of poems, Forrester is a successful bluegrass composer and musician, an advocate for indigenous rights, and a father of six children. Oh, and dont forget his day job law lecturer in ethics at Victoria University. He taught at the University of Melbourne from 1976 to 1980, at the Northwestern School of Law from 1983 to 1985, at Deakin University from 1991 to 1992, at the University of Illinois from 2000 to 2003, and at Victoria University of Wellington from 2007 to 2016.

Forrester was born in Decatur, Illinois, the soybean capital of the world. He grew up in Effingham, Quincy, and Tuscola in central Illinois, but spent most of his adult life overseas.

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