Nearly thirty years ago, the work of Mudrooroo, a writer who had been celebrated previously as Australia’s foremost Black novelist, poet and critic, was publicly cancelled amid a scandal regarding his Indigenous credentials. Today, his vast literary estate, deposited mainly in the National Library of Australia and the State Library of Western Australia, is available to researchers but remains unexplored, his important contribution to Australian literature largely forgotten. The study of the estate adds important new insights into Mudrooroo’s life and work; it reveals the existence of a corpus of dramatic works, hitherto largely unknown, as well as extensive writings while in exile after 2001, including a partially completed six-volume autobiography. The private papers confirm a stream of misogyny in his private life that scholars had already detected in his fiction, adding biographical details to the history of his five marriages. The most impressive section of the estate is the comprehensive collection of diaries that allow a nearly daily view of Mudrooroo’s Tibetan exile, ending with reflections on his long battle against terminal cancer only a few days before his death.