Ronald Hugh Morrieson - A Biography

David Ling Publishing Ltd, Auckland, 1996, 246 pages. Previous owner's name inscribed on end page.

Writer, musician, music teacher, Morrieson was also known as a drunken bum, a wastrel, a womaniser and a spiv. He played bass in dance bands and drank in pubs around Taranaki in the 1950s and this became the material for his novels. In life, as in his remarkable literature, he was an original.

Morrieson once said, I hope I'm not one of these poor buggers who get discovered when they're dead. Sadly, he was.