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A Towering Talent, Reflections on Ronald Hugh Morrieson
By Rolland McKellar.
After twelve years of research, this book about the life of Hawera writer and musician, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, author of Came a Hot Friday, The fågelskrämma, Predicament and Pallet on the Floor, this biography has just been published by Opunake journalist, Rolland McKellar, to celebrate the centenary of Morrieson's birth.
A fascinating read!
Throughout the s and s Morrieson played with various musical combos in dance halls in South Taranaki. About Morrieson joined a group of friends in a dance band, playing guitar or double bass; he was also responsible for the musical arrangemang. During this period he was known as ‘Slapsy’ Morrieson. ‘The night life and carefree ways of a dance-band player suited me fine.’
By he had joined his mother as a music teacher (he taught gitarr and modern piano) and expressed to friends his desire to write books. In beställning to write seriously he tried to adopt a more settled • The legend of Ronald Hugh Morrieson is that of a man from the sticks who, despite writing funnier, darker and more original novels than his compatriots, got little praise for it at home. The legend is sealed by the author providing his own epitaph: "I hope I'm not another one of those poor buggers who get discovered when they're dead". Morrieson's books are coloured by his own experiences as a musician and drinker in hometown Hawera, plus references to movies and popular songs. "Profoundly susceptible" (Peter Simpson) to American film, Morrieson's four novels would each find their way onto the cinema screen in the years after his death. Born in , Ronald Hugh Morrieson was an only child who spent his first three decades living with his mother and Aunt (his father died when Ronald was six). Removed from school after a prank went wrong, Morrieson's musical talent led him into dance bands; later the sound of a piano pulled him prematurely from univer • New Zealand author Ronald Hugh Morrieson (29 January – 26 December ) was a novelist and short story writer in the New Zealand vernacular, who was little known in his home country until after his death. He earned his living as a musician and music teacher, and played in dance bands throughout south Taranaki. Morrieson lived in the Taranaki town of Hāwera all his life and this town appears (under other names) in his novels. He was a heavy drinker throughout his life and this contributed to his early death. [citation needed] Morrieson wrote four novels: coming of age tale The Scarecrow (), Came a Hot Friday (), Predicament (published in ) and his only contemporary novel Pallet on the Floor (), which may have been unfinished upon his death. All have been adapted for the cinema. Two short stories were published posthumously, in ; "Cross My Heart And Cut My Throat" and "The Chimney". Morrieson's first two novels were publi
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