- Lennie Lower
Leonard (Lennie) Waldermar Lower (
September 24 ,1903 -19 July 1947 ) was anAustralian humourist who is still considered by many to be the comic genius of Australianjournalism .Lower was born in Dubbo,
New South Wales . His father was a pharmacist and his mother was Florence McInerney. Educated in Sydney, Lower joined the army for a brief time before turning tojournalism , where his talents as a humorist soon gained him a legion of dedicated fans and a place in Australian history. He wrote up to eight columns each week for a variety of newspapers inSydney during the Depression andWorld War II .Lennie Lower wrote the
novel "Here's Luck" in 1929. This novel deals with the twists and turns of befalling Jack Gudgeon and his son Stanley. When Jack's wife Agatha suddenly leaves them, both go it alone on a wild rampage through Sydney's race courses, gambling dens, pubs and cafes.Cyril Pearl , a noted Sydney journalist and Lower's editor, described "Here's Luck" in the following terms: "It remains pre-eminently Australia's funniest book, as ageless asPickwick orTom Sawyer , a work of 'weird genius', as one reviewer put it, written by a 'Chaplin of words'".Lennie Lower wrote for
The Daily Telegraph (Australia) ,The Sunday Telegraph andSmith's Weekly until his death in 1947 at the age of 43.Books
* Here's luck (1929)
* Here's another
* Here's lower
* The bachelors' guide to the care of the young: And other stories (1941)References
* Lower,Lennie; WEP.Pidgeon W.E cartoons 'Here's Luck' ISBN 0-207-13482-0.
* Lower, Lennie; Pearl,Cyril(selection) Pidgeon W.E.(WEP) 'The Best of Lennie Lower' Arkon/Angus & Robertson. ISBN 0-207-13480-4.
* Sheil,Pat Sydney Morning Herald, 20/9/03.External links
* [http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/search/osearch?term=%22Lennie+Lower%22&Image1.x=11&Image1.y=10&action=MultiSearch&mode=search National Library of Australia]
* [http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/lowerl.html Perry Middlemiss Home Page]
* [http://www.munseys.com/book/13951/Here_s_Luck Here's Luck] - e-text
* [http://www.munseys.com/book/13950/Here_s_Another Here's Another] - e-text
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
