The real queen alex haley7/1/2023 'I became terrified of that number,' she wrote. In an article in the The Sydney Morning Herald in December, she noted he had died on the day he turned 64 - the same age as her passing. She also wrote recently about the suicide of her father, Alex Carey. She was writing a book about Joyce when she died.Ĭarey, who was born in Sydney, was a regular contributor to The Australian, among other publications. In recent years, Carey had become a leading expert on the author James Joyce, as well as the host of Bloomsday events, which celebrate Joyce's classic work, Ulysses. Carey became an expert on James Joyce in her later adult lifeĬarey met Kathy Lette at the age of 12 while still at school and they became best friends.īoth left school early against the wishes of their families and shared a flat together where they wrote Puberty Blues, which was based on the teenage surfing culture in Sydney's Sutherland Shire.Ĭarey and Lette also wrote a newspaper column called the Salami Sisters in the 1980s and were known for their frank commentary.
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