{"id":3798,"date":"2026-10-19T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T09:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/?p=3798"},"modified":"2026-10-19T09:01:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T09:01:54","slug":"vale-hilary-mcphee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/2026\/10\/19\/vale-hilary-mcphee\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale Hilary McPhee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Incredibly sad to learn that Hilary McPhee has died. ‘The Conversation<\/a>‘ carries an article by Alicy Grundy.<\/p>\n

Hilary McPhee, who has died, aged 85, was already a legend when I started working in publishing, nearly two decades ago.<\/p>\n

McPhee Gribble, the publishing house she founded with friend Diana Gribble in 1975, was the first home for some of Australia\u2019s beloved authors, including Helen Garner, Gabrielle Carey and Kathy Lette. It also published Tim Winton\u2019s Cloudstreet<\/a>, voted the nation\u2019s best novel by the Australian Society of Authors<\/a> in 2003 \u2013 the same year it topped a reader poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Incredibly sad to learn that Hilary McPhee has died. ‘The Conversation‘ carries an article by Alicy Grundy. Hilary McPhee, who has died, aged 85, was already a legend when I … Continue reading “Vale Hilary McPhee”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[439,438,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mcphee-gribble","category-mcphee-hilary","category-vale"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t