Big Fish

Although there are several biographies of big game fishing bestselling American author Zane Grey, none of them focus on his two visits to Australia. Author Vicki Hastrich is also a fishing enthusiast, so when she came across Zane Grey by accident, her interest was piqued. How had this handsome athletic man become the world's first millionaire author? And why did he leave the US to set up camp on the south coast of NSW with a large entourage, generating massive public and media interest? The Last Days of Zane Grey documents a man with a complex temperament driven by a larger than life appetite for the chase - of big game fish at sea, and of women on land. With a flair for hyperbole and self-promotion that was ahead of his time, Grey is part Hollywood, part Hemingway. Hastrich's lively and entertaining biography sparkles with prose that brings the ocean to shimmering life on the page while also capturing almost farcical moments of mishap involving a fake shark.

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Big Fish is an episode from Life Sentences Podcast by Caroline Baum.

This episode is 63:05 long.

This episode was published on Jan 29, 2026.

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