Author: Sam Kane
Sam Kane is a character created by Andrew Fookes in his 2019 debut novel In Body, In Mind.
Biography
Sam was born in Armidale in 1945 and educated at The Armidale School. In 1962 he was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to Sydney University and a place at St Andrew’s College in Camperdown. He enrolled to study Medicine but became fascinated by the emerging science of psychology and switched degrees in 1964. He was awarded his Bachelor’s degree in 1967, his Master of Science degree in 1969, and his Doctorate in 1973. After a brief period in private clinical practice, he took a lecturer position at the University of Newcastle in 1974, retiring from there as a full Professor in 2002.
Books
Sam’s debut novel, In Living Memory, was initially published in August 2002. It is now scheduled to be released under the Phenomenology Press imprint in early 2025. It’s a story which examines the question of how much of who we are is determined by our memory. If we have to remember who we love, do we really love them? If we have to remember what we believe, do we really believe it? If we have to remember what we’ve said before, is anything we say what we really think? If our interaction with the universe around us is continually mediated by the past, how and why should we think of ourselves as authentic beings? It also explores the disorienting experience of an evolving sense of self, and the liberating experience of forgetting.
It’s a love story, a detective story, a chronicle of family and friendship, and a meditation on the precarious nature of our psychological selves.
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