LawsonThe extraordinary rise, devastating fall and enduring legacy of an Australian icon Lawson by Grantlee Kieza captures the heart and soul of Australia and its people with greater clarity and truth than any writer before him. Born on the goldfields in 1867, Henry Lawson became the voice of ordinary Australians, recording the hopes, dreams, and struggles of bush battlers and slum dwellers, fierce independent women, foreign fathers, and larrikin mates.