Malcolm Knox's three lives as sportsman, journalist, author

By Marc McEvoy
Updated May 8 2015 - 5:13pm, first published April 25 2015 - 12:15am
<i>The Wonder Lover</i> by Malcolm Knox.
<i>The Wonder Lover</i> by Malcolm Knox.
Malcolm Knox with Bruce his blue heeler-kelpie cross, at home in Sydney Photo: Dominic Lorrimer
Malcolm Knox with Bruce his blue heeler-kelpie cross, at home in Sydney Photo: Dominic Lorrimer
<i>The Wonder Lover</i> by Malcolm Knox.
<i>The Wonder Lover</i> by Malcolm Knox.
Malcolm Knox with Bruce his blue heeler-kelpie cross, at home in Sydney Photo: Dominic Lorrimer
Malcolm Knox with Bruce his blue heeler-kelpie cross, at home in Sydney Photo: Dominic Lorrimer
<i>The Wonder Lover</i> by Malcolm Knox.
<i>The Wonder Lover</i> by Malcolm Knox.
Malcolm Knox with Bruce his blue heeler-kelpie cross, at home in Sydney Photo: Dominic Lorrimer
Malcolm Knox with Bruce his blue heeler-kelpie cross, at home in Sydney Photo: Dominic Lorrimer

Malcolm Knox looks fit for a writer. Not that people who spend all day hunched over a keyboard can't keep in shape. But Knox, who has written almost 20 books including five novels, would not seem out of place in a rugby back line or as a short-distance runner. He owes that to a life-long love of sport, a subject that consumes much of his day job as a journalist.

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