Southern Highlands Authors
LOCAL AUTHORS
ABBOTT, Marylyn
Author – Gardening with Light and Colour.
Mittagong
ATKINSON, Caroline Louisa
Wrote Gertrude the Emigrant (1857), the first work of fiction by an Australian born woman
(see also 1999 book by Elizabeth Lawson on Atkinson’s nature artwork Resident at Oldbury Farm, Sutton Forest
ATKINSON, James
Author An account of the State of Agriculture and Grazing in NSW (1826) Pioneer of Sutton Forest
BALDERSON, Margaret
Author for children Retired Librarian – Frensham School Mittagong – Mittagong Resident
BARNSLEY, Garry
Author – Letters for Lawyers (Federation Press 2000) Resident of Mittagong; Bowral lawyer
BARTON, Charlotte
Author – wrote the first book for children to be published in Australia A Mother’s Offering to her Children (1841) (mother of Caroline Atkinson) Resident at Oldbury Farm, Sutton Forest
BRADLEY, Rachael
Poet – Dragonshadow Poetry Local
BRADMAN, Sir Donald
Author- books on cricket The Art of Cricket and A Farewell to Cricket The Boy from Bowral
BRATTER, Barrie Isobel
Author – Growing up in the 30’s Bowral
BRAY, Joan
Writer Resident of Robertson
BROWNE, Thomas Alexander also known as Rolf Boldrewood
Robbery Under Arms (1888) Berrima connection Escape from Berrima Gaol and ‘Starlight’s trail’
BURKE, David
History – Trains Burradoo
BURKE, Don
Television presenter and author Resident of Fitzroy Falls
CAVALIER, Rodney
Journalist and writer Resident of Bowral
CAHILL, Rowan
Author and journalist Resident of Burradoo
CHERRY, Thanh and Benjamin
Authors – Of Pandas & Wandering Geese Rudolf Steiner School educators
CHURCHILL, Jennie
Author – Pet Sense, Gardens in Time – Co-Author with Trisha Dixon – The Visions of Edna Walling Resident of Crookwell
COMPTON, Jennifer
Poet and playwright Resident of Wingello
COOMBS, Ann
Author Resident of Exeter
COTT, Mackay
Editor and journalist Resident of Mittagong
DARLING, Sally
Author – local history Resident of Burrawang
DAY, Leah
Author – local history Resident of Mittagong
DIXON, Trisha
Author – The Vision of Edna Walling Attended Frensham School, Mittagong
DOBSON, Rosemary
Poet Attended Frensham school, Mittagong
DRAKE-BROCKMAN, Henrietta
Author Attended Frensham school, Mittagong
ERCOLE, Veila Novelist
Attended Dominican Convent Moss Vale
ELSE-MITCHELL, Rae
Historian Local connections
EMMETT, Anthony
Author – The Bare Facts (The Effect of Sun on Skin) Burradoo
FAIRFAX, Kay
Author – The Tranquil Garden
FISHER, Jennifer
Author (lacemaking) Resident of Bowral
FORD, Julieanne
Radio writer Resident of Bowral
FOSTER, David
Author Resident of Bundanoon – Miles Franklin Award winner
FRANKE, Eberhard
Poetry and Prose – Hallo Papa Local
HALL, Dorothy
Herbalist Local resident
HANSEL, Emel
Author – wrote Ober und Unten (Ups and Downs) in 1910 – an account of his life in Australia, especially of this area in the 1890s. Came to Australia from Bohemia in 1889. Lived and worked at Bong Bong for over 2 years in 1890s as an employee of NSW Dept of Agriculture.
HAUPTBERGER,
Author – Post Natal Depression Local
HENEY, Helen
Novelist Resident of Moss Vale
HINDE, Annette
Author – Australian wildflowers in stumpwork Resident of Balaclava near Mittagong
HOWLETT, Lorna
Writer Resident of Berrima
ILIFF, I V
Author – The Gibrogs Local
JACKSON, Arthur
Poet – Forty Winks Robertson resident
JARVIS, James
Author and historian – local history History of the Berrima District
JONES, Patrick
Poet Was a resident
JONES, R F G
Author – Time Passes (Dylan Thomas’s Journey to Under Milk Wood) Bowral resident and businessman
KEESING, Nancy
Author Attended Frensham School
KEMSLEY, James
Cartoonist and author Resident of Welby
KING, Petrea
Author – Spirited Women, Quest for Life, Sometimes Hearts have to Breakl Bundanoon – Quest for Life
KNAPMAN, Leonie
Author – ‘Joadja’ Resident of Mittagong
LAMOND, Hector
Editor and journalist Was resident of Bowral
LEE, Claude
Local historian Was resident of Mittagong
LUCK, Geoffrey
Author – Villa Fortuna Resident of Mittagong
MACARTHUR ONLSOW
Annette Author Attended Frensham School, Mittagong
McCOLGAN, John
Local historian Resident of Mittagong
McKIE, Ronald
World War II correspondent, journalist and novelist Lived in Bowral from 1975 to 1984
MAHOOD, Kim
Author – Craft for a Dry Lake – a Memoir Kangaroo Valley
MAUDE, Lt. Col. G A (R.A.)
Author – Letters from Russia Moss Vale connection through Jonh Maude
MEREDITH, John
Folk music collector and historian Resident of Thirlmere
MEREDITH, Gwen
Author of radio serial Blue Hills Was resident of Berrima
MILLETT, John
Poet, editor and author Resident of Berrima ( The Magistrate’s House)
MURRAY, Gilbert
Classical scholar Gilbert Murray: An Unfinished Autobiography (1960) Attended school at Southey’s Academy, Mittagong
NICHOLAS, Jane
Author – Stumpwork (needlecraft) Resident of Bowral
NIELSEN, Leon
Author – The Australian & New Zealand Gardener’s Tree & Shrubs Handbook Resident near Berrima
NORTH, Tim
Author – Garden Cuttings Was Bowral resident
OPPEN, Alice
Arnott Author – Shakespeare – Listening to the Women Sydney and Kangaroo Valley
O’REILLY, Bill
Cricket journalist, commentator and author Was Wingello resident
PARRY, Jack
Local historian: Town Clerk Resident of Bowral
PERRY, Grace
Founder of South Head Press and editor of Poetry Australia Resident of Berrima
PHIPSON, Joan
Children’s author Attended Frensham school, Mittagong
PREDDY, Virginia
Author Bowral
PRICE, Leslie
Local historian Was Bowral solicitor
PRICE-JONES, Pat
Journalist Bowral
QUICK, Mary
Publisher Resident of Bowral
ROXBURGH, Rachel
Historian and publisher Was resident of Moss Vale – former shire councillor
RYAN, James F
Author – Time Bombs and another book on cancer Local
SAMUELS, Edmond
Author – An Illustrated History of Australian Internment Camps (Berrima) Uncle of NSW Governor Gordon Samuels AC
SCOTT, John
Author – Selected Poems – What I Have Written, Before I Wake, The Architect … Resident of Bowral
SEMMLER, Clement
Author, critic and biographer of AB Paterson Resident of Bowral
SIMONS, John
Historian – Prisoners in Arcady Burradoo
STANTON, Rosemary
Nutritionist and author Bowral
SYNED, Celia
Writer
THORNTON, Max
Journalist
TRAVERS, P L
Author – Mary Poppins Resident of Bowral
THWAITES, Frederick
Novelist Resident of Moss Vale
UPFIELD, Arthur
Author – Bony books Resident of Bowral
VARGA, Susan
Author – Heddy and Me and Happy Families Resident of Exeter
VERNON, Inge
Author Local
WHITE, Patrick
Author – Nobel laureate, literature School days at Tudor House Moss Vale
WHITE, Paul
Author – Jungle Doctor books Born in Jasmine Street Bowral
WILD, Ronald
Author (Bradstow) Lived in Bowral while researching the book
WILDER, Kenneth
Publisher and author Resident of Burradoo
WILLIAMS, Maslyn
Novelist, playwright and film producer Was resident of Bowral
WILSON, John
Explorer 1798. Journal of expedition, first written record of the lyrebird and koala Leader, first European exploration of the Southern Highlands
