Mary Mann

Mary Anneeta Mann was born in Rockhampton, Australia. Her father Willie Augustus Mann was an original ANZAC fighting on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915 and in Flanders Fields till the end of World War I. Mary came to the United States in 1966 to pursue her education at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Southern California obtaining the Ph.D. in 1982. She has written plays for youth audiences, including 'Thugun and Natasha moving beyond guns and violence', 'ANZAC to Understanding', tracking her family through the 19th and 20th centuries and including the play 'ANZAC an epic on war and peace in the 20th century' and original war letters of her father. Turning to philosophy she wrote 'The Construction of Tragedy' relying on Aristotle's 'Poetics' and 'There are no Enemies, a practical philosophy of Life' also indebted to Aristotle. She lives in the Arts District of North Hollywood, California and is moving into the philosophy of democracy.