Gerard Charles Windsor (born 29 December 1944) is an Australian author and literary critic.
[1] Dr Windsor had immigrated with his father Harry Joseph Windsor to Brisbane, Queensland from Cork, Ireland[2] sometime before 1932, qualified as a medical practitioner, served with the 2nd AIF in WWII and was elected Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1947.
[3] Windsor was educated at St Ignatius' College, Riverview, dux in both 1961 and 1962,[4] and a student of Melvyn Morrow.
He is a writer, having published ten books, including fiction, compilations of essays, and memoirs.
Awarded the 2005 Pascall Prize for Critical Writing, he noted that "The primary responsibility of the review is to entertain the reader...The primary responsibility is not to the book or the movie or the play or whatever, which is not to be utterly amoral about it.