Michael Gawenda is one of Australia's best-known journalists and authors. In a journalism career spanning four decades, Michael has been a political reporter, a foreign correspondent based in London and in Washington, a columnist, a feature writer, a senior editor at Time Magazine, and the Editor and Editor in Chief of The Age in Melbourne from 1997 to 2004. He is the author of three books: American Notebook, A Personal and Political Journey; Rocky and Gawenda: The Story of a Man and his Mutt; and Leo Meo: Songs To My Grandson.
