Ion idriess biography of rory

Australian author (1889–1979)

Ion Llewellyn IdriessOBE (20 September 1889 – 6 June 1979) was a prolific and influential Australian author.^[1] He wrote more than 50 books over 43 years between 1927 and 1969 – an average of one book every 10 months, and twice published three books in one year (1932 and 1940).

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His first book was Madman's Island, published in 1927 at the age of 38, and his last was written at the age of 79. Called Challenge of the North, it told of Idriess's ideas for developing the north of Australia.^[2]

Two of his works, The Cattle King (1936) and Flynn of the Inland (1932) had more than forty reprintings.^[2]

Biography

Early years

Idriess was born in Waverley, a suburb of Sydney, to Juliette Windeyer (who had been born as Juliette Edmunds in 1865 at Binalong) and Walter Owen Idriess (a sheriff's officer born in 1862, who had emigrated from Dolgellau, in Wales).

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