H. A. Lindsay

Australian writer for children

H. A. Lindsay
Born	Harold Arthur Lindsay (1900-11-13)13 November 1900 Hyde Park, South Australia
Died	4 December 1969(1969-12-04) (aged 69) Highgate, South Australia
Occupation	novelist and writer for children
Language	English
Nationality	Australian
Years active	1915-1964
Notable works	The First Walkabout
Notable awards	Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers

H. A. Lindsay (1900–1969) was an Australian writer for children who was born in Hyde Park, South Australia.^[1]

Life and career

As a child he was educated at Kyre College (now Scotch College, Adelaide).^[2]

He travelled widely in Australia before working as a commercial bee-keeper and farmer leading up to the Second World War. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in 1942 and rose to warrant officer, class one, in the Australian Army Education Service where he taught the bushcraft he had learned on his pre-war travels.^[3]

After the war he became a full-time writer and broadcaster, writing regular columns for the Melbourne Age and Adelaide Sunday Advertiser newspapers,^[3] and for The Port Phillip Gazette.^[4]

He wrote five novels for adults and was awarded the Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers for his work The First Walkabout which he wrote with Norman B Tindale and published in 1954.^[5]

He died in Highgate, South Australia in 1969.^[1]

Bibliography

Novels

The Red Bull (1959)
Sweeps the Wide Earth (1960)
Janie McLachlan (1961)
Faraway Hill (1963)
And Gifts Misspent (1964)

Young adult fiction

The Arnhem Treasure (1952)
The First Walkabout (1954) with Norman B Tindale
Rangatira (1960) with Norman B Tindale

Non-fiction

Aboriginal Australians (1963) with Norman B Tindale
"The Bushman's Handbook" First edition 1948 Second edition 1951 Third Edition (Revised and reset) 1963

References

^ ^a ^b Austlit - H. A. Lindsay
^ Round, Kerrie. "Harold Arthur (Bill) Lindsay - Australian Dictionary of Biography". ADB. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
^ ^a ^b Australian Dictionary of Biography - Lindsay, Harold Arthur by Kerrie Round
^ Lindsay, H. A. (Summer 1955). "Myth : Adelaide for culture?". The Port Phillip Gazette. 2 (2): 11–14.
^ Austlit - The First Walkabout by Norman B. Tindale & Harold Arthur Lindsay