Greg Growden (1959/1960 – 14 November 2020) was an Australian sports journalist, author and biographer.
Life
[edit]Growden was born in Adelaide, the son of Port Adelaide Football Club player Kevin Growden.[1] The family moved to a rice farm at Coleambally in the Riverina where Growden spent his teenage years.[2]
He joined the Sydney Morning Herald in early 1978 soon after leaving school.[3] He was chief rugby union correspondent for the paper from 1987 to 2012, and was the Australian rugby union correspondent for ESPN from 2012 to 2018.[4] He is one of just two international rugby writers to cover all of the first eight World Cups.[5]
Growden died of cancer on 14 November 2020, aged 60.[6][7][8]
Books
[edit]- The Wallabies' World Cup! (1991, with Spiro Zavos, Simon Poidevin and Evan Whitton)
- A Wayward Genius: The Fleetwood-Smith Story (1991)
- With the Wallabies (1995)
- Gold, Mud and Guts: The Incredible Tom Richards – Footballer, War Hero, Olympian (2001)
- Rugby Union for Dummies (2003, 2011)
- The Snowy Baker Story (2003)
- My Sporting Hero (2004, editor)
- It's Not Just a Bloody Game! Timeless Rugby Union Stories (2007)
- Jack Fingleton: The Man Who Stood Up to Bradman (2008)
- Inside the Wallabies: The Real Story – the Players, the Politics, the Games from 1908 to Today (2010)
- More Important than Life or Death: Inside the Best of Australian Sport (2013, co-editor with Peter FitzSimons)
- Wallaby Warrior: The World War I War Diaries of Tom Richards, Australia's only British Lion (2013, editor)
- Bowled by a Bullet: The Tragic Life of Claude Tozer (2015)
- The Wrong 'Un: The Brad Hogg Story (2016, with Brad Hogg)
- The Wallabies at War (2018)
- Major Thomas: The Bush Lawyer Who Defended Breaker Morant and Took On the British Empire (2019)
- Cricketers at War (2019)
References
[edit]- ^ Growden, Greg (7 March 2016). "Son of a Ports gun: Greg Growden's life as a bush footy player". ABC News. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
- ^ Growden, Greg (24 May 2008). "Lawn bowls is best thing since man discovered the ball". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
- ^ "Greg Growden". Cameron's. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
- ^ Greg Growden, Cricketers at War, ABC Books, Sydney, 2019, p. i.
- ^ "Greg Growden". HarperCollins. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
- ^ "Untitled". Twitter. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
Very sorry to report that Greg Growden passed away at 8 pm tonight.
- ^ FitzSimons, Peter (13 November 2020). "The Fitz Files: Dazed and confused - mixed messages on concussion in NRL, State of Origin a big problem". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
- ^ FitzSimons, Peter (14 November 2020). "Vale Greg Growden, you will be long remembered". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
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