Mark Brandon Read
Mark 'Chopper' Read
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Born in Melbourne’s working-class suburbs to an army veteran father and a devout Seventh-day Adventist mother, Read endured a chaotic upbringing marked by bullying, abuse and periods in state care that shaped his later notoriety. After a lengthy criminal career, he reinvented himself as a writer, producing a string of semi-autobiographical crime novels that blended gritty realism with dark humour,…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources