Biography
Andrew Humphreys has twice been named as one of the Sydney Morning Herald's best young Australian novelists. His first novel, The Weight of the Sun (2001), examined the relationship of a nose bleeder and his mask-wearing mother. His second novel, Wonderful (2004), traced the glittering career of a movie star monkey and his perpetually drunken trainer, from Hungary via Africa to Hollywood's Golden Age. His third novel, Martin Westley Takes a Walk, is about a man named Martin Westley who takes a walk. Andrew lives on Sydney's northern beaches with his partner and their twin sons. He has worked as a writer, editor and publisher of magazines including Rolling Stone and Soap World, but has insisted on calling himself a full-time writer of fiction since 2001, even though - despite the appearance of his novels in bookstores, and his short stories in publications such as Meanjin and the Griffith REVIEW - nobody (including his accountant) has ever believed him. If pressed, he will acknowledge that these days he is best described as a full-time father who writes books occasionally.