Houdini Unbound in The Australian
Alan writes:
"There was no eureka moment. No sudden revelation causing me to sit upright in bed in the early hours thinking: “That’s it …” Nothing that might make an arresting scene in a movie or a Pre-Raphaelite-style painting with the title When Inspiration Strikes.
I can’t even say for sure when I decided to write a book about Harry Houdini. For I’ve had Harry in my head for well over 20 years. And not so much Houdini the escape artist, the man whose name is still appropriated when anyone, anywhere, squeaks out of a tight spot. My interest initially was in Houdini the aviator, the Hungarian-born American whose name is often cited as the first to make a powered, controlled flight in Australia – in Diggers Rest, outside Melbourne, in February 1910."
Text and Image Credits: The Australian