Nino Culotta

John O'Grady was born on 9 October 1907 in Waverley, in Sydney. A qualified pharmacist from the University of Sydney, he served during the war in the army medical service, worked at various trades, including that of ship's doctor, and worked as a pharmacist for the New Zealand government in Western Samoa. His first book, published under an Italian name, made him a bestselling author; he then wrote fifteen others, one of them on the Australian idiom, and an autobiography. He died at home, in Oatley, on 14 January 1981.

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