Peter Doyle (writer)

Infobox Writer


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name = Peter Doyle
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birthdate = 1951
birthplace = Maroubra, Sydney, New South Wales, AUS
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occupation = Novelist
genre = Detective fiction
movement = Pulp Fiction
notableworks = The Devil's Jump
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Dr. Peter Doyle, BA, Phd (born 1951 Maroubra, Sydney, New South Wales) is a doctor of Media and Mass Communications, author, musician, and visual artist. He lives in Newtown, and works for Macquarie University where he teaches Print Media Production, as well as being a part-time as a curator of Sydney’s Justice and Police Museum.

Biography

Peter Doyle grew up in Syndey's eastern suburbs, which provides much of the setting for his fiction work. He has a Bachelor of Arts (Communications) from UTS and a PhD in Media and Mass Communications on the renderings of virtual space in early popular music recording from Macquarie University (2002). He also maintains a research interest in comics and the graphic novel, the history of twentieth century popular music, as well as crime writing, both in Australia, and overseas.

He worked variously as a taxi driver, musician, and teacher prior to his first publication, "Get Rich Quick" in 1996, which won him Australia's prestigious Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Novel in 1997. He followed this with another successful sequel, "Amaze Your Friends", which won him another award, the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel in 1998. His third title, "The Devil's Jump", released in 2001 was a prequel, and was set in Sydney in the closing days of World War II.

His curatorial work at the Sydney Justice and Police Museum has seen him curate two major exhibitions, ‘Crimes of Passion’ (2002-2003), and ‘City of Shadows: inner city crime and mayhem, 1912-1948’ (November 2005-February 2007), both of which were social histories of inner-city twentieth century Sydney from the point of view of crime scene photography.

His musical style is a mixture of Sydney blues, rockabilly, country and pub rock scenes, and his interest in music is a strong influence in his fiction writing.

Awards

*Co-winner of 1997 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Novel for "Get Rich Quick"cite web |title= Ned Kelly Awards |publisher= Australian Crime Fiction Database |url= http://www.crimedownunder.com/nedkellyawards.html |accessdate= 2007-09-15]
*Winner 1999 Ned Kelly Award Best Crime Novel for "Amaze Your Friends"
*Association of Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) 2006 award for Best Research in Record Labels and General History
*2006 National Trust/Energy Australia Heritage Award in the Interpretation and Presentation, Corporate and Government division

Works

Novels

Non-fiction

Other Articles

"‘Writing Sound: Popular music in Australian Fiction’" Altitude, issue.8, 2007 website: http://www.altitude21c.com

"‘Signs and Wonders: Little Richard in Australia, 1957’" Meanjin, Vol65, No3, 2006

"‘Public eye, private eye: Sydney police mug shots, 1912-1930’" Scan, vol 2 number 3 December 2005 http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display.php?journal_id=67

"‘Lost City Found: interview with Luc Sante,’" Scan, vol 2 number 3 December 2005 http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display.php?journal_id=68

"‘From "My blue heaven" to "Race with the Devil": echo, reverb and (dis)ordered space in early popular music recording’" Popular Music, May 2004 23/1 pp31-49

"‘Three way stretch’", UTS Review, November, 2000 6/2 pp126-140

"‘Flying saucer rock'n'roll: the Australian press confronts early rock'n'roll music’" Perfect Beat, July, 1999, 4/3, pp24-47

"‘The socio-semiotics of electricity substations’" in Social Semiotics, No.1, 1991.

Peter has written feature articles, reviews and short pieces for "The Bulletin", "HQ" and "The Sydney Morning Herald". He has also been a columnist for "Max" and "Sydney City Hub".

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References

* http://www.media.mq.edu.au/staff/profiles/index.php?u_id=7&staff_id=pdoyle
* http://www.austcrimefiction.org/index.php/Doyle,_Peter