Meet the Author - Michael Lawriwsky Michael Lawriwsky was born in Barmera, South Australia in 1952 of Ukrainian refugees who had fled through the Iron Curtain in 1946-48 and arrived in Australia in 1949. He grew up in Adelaide, attended Woodville High School, Rostrevor College and the University of Adelaide, where he was awarded a PhD in economics. He moved to Melbourne in 1978 and was appointed Professor of Commerce at La Trobe University in 1988. He resigned in the early 1990s to become a director-corporate finance at ANZ Securities and ANZ Investment Bank. Subsequently he was a director of the Allen Consulting Group, and is currently a director at PricewaterhouseCoopers. A past part-time Commissioner of the International Air Services Commission, he is an adjunct professor in the School of Business at La Trobe University. Michael’s novel ‘Hard Jacka’, was first published in 2007 and has been re-printed twice. He has now followed it up with the sequel, ‘Return of the Gallipoli Legend’, which completes the extraordinary two-part story of Albert Jacka. Email: Michael Lawriwsky   Copyright © 2010 Michael Lawriwsky