Michael Duffy

Who is Michael Duffy?

Michael Duffy is an Australian writer. Duffy presented ABC Radio National's Counterpoint with Paul Comrie-Thomson and wrote for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sun Herald until June 2012. He has written true crime books and the novels The Tower, The Simple Death and "Drive By." Duffy also wrote a biography of John Macarthur, as well as a joint biography and analysis of the rivalry of Mark Latham and Tony Abbott titled "Latham and Abbott". Of the latter, Tony Smith of the Australian Public Intellectual network wrote, "Michael Duffy so clearly analyses Mark Latham's strengths that even obtuse observers must appreciate how Prime Minister John Howard comfortably neutralised his opponent's appeal".

Duffy edited The Independent Monthly, a general magazine owned by Max Suich and John B Fairfax, from 1993 to 1996. Then he and his wife Alex Snellgrove set up a publishing company, Duffy & Snellgrove, that published the first books by Peter Robb, John Birmingham and Rosalie Ham. Other authors included Les Murray, Mungo MacCallum and John Olsen. The company stopped publishing new titles in 2005.