Stanford Mark Juddery (8 March 197113 January 2015) was an Australian freelance journalist, author, humorist and columnist for '' The Canberra Times''. His work also appeared in such newspapers as '' The Australian'' and '' The Sydney Morning Herald'', as well as a range of magazines including ''

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'', '' Empire'', '' Inside Sport'', '' Mad Magazine'' and '' Griffith Review''. He also wrote comedy sketches for radio and television, as well as several short comedy plays, which he directed and performed worldwide.

Biography

A movie critic and writer for several years, as well as a publicist for the

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, Juddery wrote an e-book guide to movie reviewing for Fabjob Books in 2003. Along with movies, popular culture and humor, much of his writing has revealed an interest in Eastern spirituality. At the age of 19, he studied under meditation teacher Sri Chinmoy and consistently meditated. As well as hundreds of articles, Juddery wrote the books ''1975 – Australia's Greatest Year'' (

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, 2005), ''Busted! The 50 Most Overrated Things in History'' (Random House, 2008) and ''Best. Times. Ever'' (Hardie Grant Books, 2014), all for the Australian market. In 2010, ''Busted!'' was re-published for the US market by Perigree Books (a division of

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) in New York, substantially revised and rewritten by the author, with the new title ''Overrated: The 50 Most Overhyped Things in History''. Several chapters were replaced, some of them because they were on topics unknown to American readers (e.g.

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). Juddery lived in

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, where he wrote a popular weekly

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for ''The Canberra Times'' from 2007. Early in 2014, he was diagnosed with cancer, just as his book ''Best. Times. Ever'' was due to be released. "Not only doesn't my cancer make sense, but it isn't even fair," he wrote. "In that way, it reminds me of everyone over the years who has hurt me, everyone who has threatened me, everyone who has tried to control me, everyone who has made me feel scared. I have every intention of fighting those bastards. I have every intention of beating them." He died of cancer on 13 January 2015, aged 43. He was the son of

Bruce Juddery Bruce Juddery (25 September 194116 January 2003) was an Australian journalist. He wrote primarily for ''The Canberra Times''. Life and career Juddery was born in Tauranga, New Zealand on 25 September 1941. He started his newspaper career writ ...

(1941–2003), who was also a journalist for ''The Canberra Times''.

Bibliography

Books

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Essays and reporting

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Juddery, Mark 1971 births 2015 deaths Australian freelance journalists Australian people of New Zealand descent Australian people of Filipino descent Deaths from cancer in the Australian Capital Territory Devotees of Sri Chinmoy The Spectator people The Canberra Times people