Edward Vivian "Vance" Palmer was an Australian novelist, dramatist, essayist and critic.
Ethel Campbell Louise Anderson was an early twentieth century Australian poet, essayist, novelist and painter. She considered herself to be mainly a poet, but is now best appreciated for her witty and ironic stories. Anderson has been described as "a high-profile author, artist, art commentator and emissary for modernism".
Jack Lindsay was an Australian-born writer, who from 1926 lived in the United Kingdom, initially in Essex. He was born in Melbourne, but spent his formative years in Brisbane. He was the eldest son of Norman Lindsay and brother of author Philip Lindsay.
Hugh Raymond McCrae OBE was an Australian writer, noted for his poetry.
Meanjin, formerly Meanjin Papers and Meanjin Quarterly, is an Australian literary magazine with a reputation for democratic left-of-centre politics, as against the right-wing stance of its rival Quadrant. Established in 1940 in Brisbane, it moved to Melbourne in 1945 and is as of 2008 an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing.
Rosemary de Brissac Dobson, AO was an Australian poet, who was also an illustrator, editor and anthologist. She published fourteen volumes of poetry, was published in almost every annual volume of Australian Poetry and has been translated into French and other languages.
Douglas Stewart was a major twentieth century Australian poet, as well as short story writer, essayist and literary editor. He published 13 collections of poetry, 5 verse plays, including the well-known Fire on the Snow, many short stories and critical essays, and biographies of Norman Lindsay and Kenneth Slessor. He also edited several poetry anthologies.
Joan Elizabeth London is an Australian author of short stories, screenplays and novels.
The Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) is an association for Australian writers. It was established in Sydney in 1928, with the aim of bringing writers together and promoting their interests. The organisation played a key role in the establishment of the Australian Society of Authors in 1963, a national body and now the main professional organisation in Australia for writers of literary works.
Florence Gertrude James was an Australian writer and literary agent, born in New Zealand.
Louis Kaye was the pseudonym of Noel Wilson Norman, an Australian novelist and short story writer. He also published short stories under the names Grant Doyle Cooper and James Linnel.
The Lone Hand was a monthly Australian magazine of literature and poetry published between 1907 and 1928. The magazine was based in Sydney.
Maxwell MacAlister Brown was an Australian novelist and journalist.
John Foulcher is an Australian poet and teacher.
Redheap, also published as Every Mother's Son, is a 1930 novel by Norman Lindsay. It is a story of life in a country town in Victoria, Australia in the 1890s. Lindsay portrays real characters struggling with the social restrictions of the day. Snobbery and wowserism are dominant themes. In 1930 it became the first Australian novel to be banned in Australia. The novel forms the first part of a trilogy.
Dora Birtles, was an Australian novelist, short-story writer, poet and travel writer.
Gilbert Palmer Mant was an Australian journalist and author.
Brian Robinson Elliott was a writer and academic in Adelaide, South Australia, hailed as the first academic to regard Australian literature as a worthy field of study.
Age of Consent is a 1938 Australian comic novel written and illustrated by Norman Lindsay, in which the central character is a middle-aged painter, based loosely on the author, who travels to a rural township of New South Wales in search of scenic inspiration, but who meets instead a wild adolescent girl who serves as his model and muse. Age of Consent is dedicated to Howard Hinton. The book, first published in the United Kingdom and simultaneously in the United States, was briefly banned in Australia. It was adapted for the screen in 1969.
Saturdee is a 1933 novel written and illustrated by Australian author Norman Lindsay. It is a humorous novel dealing with mischievous Australian schoolboys and schoolgirls. It forms part of a trilogy. The novel was adapted for television in 1986.
