Peter Coleman is an author and editor who has been made an Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia `for distinguished service to the print media industry as a noted editor, journalist, biographer and author¿. Coleman was the editor of Quadrant from 1967-1990, and wrote or co-wrote a number of books, including The Last Intellectuals: Essays on Writers and Politics (Quadrant Books); The Costello Memoirs (with Peter Costello, MUP), The Real Barry Humphries (Robson) and The Liberal Conspiracy: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Struggle for the Mind of Postwar Europe.
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