Both are composed largely of very long but grammatical sentences. Murnane's first two books, Tamarisk Row (1974) and A Lifetime on Clouds (1976), seem to be semi-autobiographical accounts of his childhood and adolescence. After the death of his wife in 2009 Murnane moved to Goroke in country Victoria. In 1969 Murnane moved to the Melbourne suburb of Macleod. From 1980 he began to teach creative writing at various tertiary institutions.
He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne in 1969, then worked in the Victorian Education Department until 1973. He abandoned this path, however, instead becoming a teacher in primary schools (from 1960 to 1968), and at the Victoria Racing Club's Apprentice Jockeys' School. Murnane briefly trained for the Roman Catholic priesthood in 1957. In 1956 he graduated from De La Salle College, Malvern. Parts of his childhood were spent in Bendigo and the Western District.
He is one of four children–one of whom, a brother, suffered an intellectual disability, was repeatedly hospitalised and died in 1985. Murnane was born in Coburg, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne, and has almost never left the state of Victoria.
The New York Times, in a big feature published on 27 March 2018, called him "the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of". Gerald Murnane (born 25 February 1939) is an Australian writer, perhaps best known for his novel The Plains (1982). Prime Minister's Literary Awards (2018).
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