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Pamela Bone

Pamela Bone was a journalist for The Age, joining the profession later in life after working such jobs as night shifts in a fruit cannery. She was the first female leader writer for The Age, and their first female associate editor. Twice Pamela won the Melbourne Press Club's award for best newspaper columnist; and was also received the United Nations Media Peace Prize. She passed away in 2008. 

Pamela Bone reviews 'Dying: A memoir' by Donald and Myfanwy Horne

December 2007–January 2008, no. 297 01 December 2007
Pamela Bone reviews 'Dying: A memoir' by Donald and Myfanwy Horne
Eighty-four is a good age. To die then is not a tragedy, or at least no more than that the knowledge we must all die is the great human tragedy (some might think the alternative, to live forever, would be an even greater one). Donald Horne does not consider his death a tragedy, in this account of his dying. What pervades this thoughtful book, written by Donald Horne and his wife, Myfanwy Horne, is ... (read more)