Richard Appleton

Comprehensive information about Richard Appleton including biographical information, facts, literary works, and more. Richard Appleton (17 January 1932 – 27 April 2005) was an Australian poet, raconteur and editor who became editor-in-chief of the Australian Encyclopaedia and, in 1987, was co-editor with Alex Galloway of the posthumous Lex Banning poetry collection There Was a Crooked Man. He was a long-time associate of the Sydney Push, of which his memoirs were published posthumously in 2009. He helped create The Pluralist, a journal of dissident thought. This educational Richard Appleton resource has information about the author's life, works, quotations, articles and essays, and more.