Greg Growden (1959/1960 – 14 November 2020) was an Australian sports journalist, author and biographer.
Life
Growden was born in Adelaide, the son of Port Adelaide Football Club player
Kevin Growden.
The family moved to a rice farm at
Coleambally in the
Riverina where Growden spent his teenage years.
He joined the Sydney Morning Herald in early 1978 soon after leaving school.[Greg Growden, Cricketers at War, ABC Books, Sydney, 2019, p. i.] He is one of just two international rugby writers to cover all of the first eight World Cups.
Growden died of cancer on 14 November 2020, aged 60.
Books
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The Wallabies' World Cup! (1991, with Spiro Zavos, Simon Poidevin and Evan Whitton)
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A Wayward Genius: The Fleetwood-Smith Story (1991)
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With the Wallabies (1995)
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Gold, Mud and Guts: The Incredible Tom Richards – Footballer, War Hero, Olympian (2001)
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Rugby Union for Dummies (2003, 2011)
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The Snowy Baker Story (2003)
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My Sporting Hero (2004, editor)
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It's Not Just a Bloody Game! Timeless Rugby Union Stories (2007)
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Jack Fingleton: The Man Who Stood Up to Bradman (2008)
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Inside the Wallabies: The Real Story – the Players, the Politics, the Games from 1908 to Today (2010)
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More Important than Life or Death: Inside the Best of Australian Sport (2013, co-editor with Peter FitzSimons)
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Wallaby Warrior: The World War I War Diaries of Tom Richards, Australia's only British Lion (2013, editor)
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Bowled by a Bullet: The Tragic Life of Claude Tozer (2015)
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The Wrong 'Un: The Brad Hogg Story (2016, with Brad Hogg)
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The Wallabies at War (2018)
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Major Thomas: The Bush Lawyer Who Defended Breaker Morant and Took On the British Empire (2019)
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Cricketers at War (2019)
