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Frank Hardy
Francis Joseph Hardy, or Frank, (21 March 1917 – 28 January 1994) was an Australian left-wing novelist and writer best known for his controversial novel ''Power Without Glory''. He previously wrote under the pseudonym Ross Franklyn. Later, he was a political activist bringing the plight of Aboriginal Australians to international attention with the publication of his book, ''The Unlucky Australians'', in 1968. He ran unsuccessfully for the Australian parliament twice.
==Early life==
Frank Hardy, the fifth of the eight children of Thomas and Winifred Hardy, was born on 21 March 1917 at Southern Cross in Western Victoria and later moved with his family to Bacchus Marsh, west of Melbourne.〔Hocking, Jenny. ''Frank Hardy: Politics, Literature, Life'' South Melbourne: Lothian Books: 2005; ISBN 0-7344-0836-6〕〔Armstrong, Pauline. ''Frank Hardy and the Making of Power Without Glory''. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0-522-84888-5〕〔Adams, Paul. ''The Stranger From Melbourne: Frank Hardy – A Literary Biography 1944–1975''. University of Western Australia Press: 1999; ISBN 1-876268-23-9〕 His mother, Winifred, was a Roman Catholichis father, Thomas, an atheist of Welsh and English descent. In 1931 Hardy left school, aged 14, and embarked upon a series of manual jobs. According to Hardy biographer Pauline Armstrong, "his first job was as a messenger and bottlewasher at the local chemist's shop" and then Hardy worked at the local grocer. He later also did manual work "in and around Bacchus Marsh in the milk factory, digging potatoes, picking tomatoes and fruit".
There is some debate among Hardy's biographers about the relative extent Hardy personally suffered from hardships during the 1930s depression. Hardy claimed himself that he left home when he was 13 because "his dad couldn't get the dole" with him at home.〔See interview "Hardy declares war on poverty" in ''The Herald'' (Melbourne) of 7 October 1983〕 However, Jim Hardy, Frank's eldest brother, wrote to the ''Melbourne Herald'' on 6 November 1983 to rebut this assertion, claiming that Frank had never had to leave homefurther noting that their "father never lost a day's work in his life". According to biographer Jenny Hocking 〔Hocking, Jenny. ''Frank Hardy: Politics, Literature, Life'' South Melbourne: Lothian Books, 2005 ISBN 0-7344-0836-6; p. 11〕 in a more recent biography, Tom Hardy indeed did lose his job at a milk factory at the start of the Great Depression, and the family had had to move into a small rented house in Lerderderg Street.
In 1937 ''Radio Times'' published a selection of his cartoons.
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