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Sally Morgan was born in Perth, Western Australia, in
1951 and grew up in suburban Manning. She completed a
Bachelor of Arts degree at The University of Western
Australia in 1974, majoring in Psychology. She also has
postgraduate diplomas from the Western Australian
Institute of Technology (now Curtin University of
Technology) in both Counselling Psychology and Computing
and Library Studies. She has three children.
My Place
My Place
traces an aboriginal woman’s experiences as a
young girl in suburban Perth in the fifties and
sixties. Through the use of memories and images
of her childhood and adolescence, undiscovered
secrets begin to come to light. Gradually, the
entire family is pulled into the vortex of these
revelations, and people who have always been
silent, are allowed to tell their tales. Winner
of the 1987 Australian Human Rights Award for
Literature and the 1990 Order of Australia Book
Prize, My Place is an Australian classic.
My Place is
Sally Morgan's first book, and upon publications
it immediately achieved best-seller status.
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