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'''John Dalziel''' was born in 1943 into a family environment that lacked opportunity
or encouragement for education and spent much of his early years
as something of a less than Artful Dodger on the then mean streets of lower
Sydney, Australia. Constantly one step ahead of truant officers, he had gravitated
to the city libraries, art galleries, and museums as places of refuge,
but, most days, would be occupied in the city’s cinemas. Here, his tutors and
guides would be discovered to have names such as Kazan, Kramer, Lumet,
Wilder and so many others. It was most likely Kazan’s ''East of Eden'' that was
the initial influence that rescued him from a potential future of alienation
and social hostility near to that of a Jack Abbott. The film led to the discovery
of Steinbeck at the age of thirteen and consequently to a life-long obsession
with reading, particularly of American literature and film history
and criticism. For many years, when asked about his family history, he would
claim Dostoyevsky as grandfather, Steinbeck for father, and Sartre as uncle.
Norman Mailer was the unruly and inspiring older brother.

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