biography
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Stewart, Douglas (Alexander)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1913–85)
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| biography:
| Poet and playwright, born in Eltham, Taranaki, New Zealand. He studied at Victoria University College, Australia. Editor of the ‘Red Page’ in the Bulletin magazine (1940–61), he then became literary editor for Angus & Robertson publishers. His work includes short stories, biographies, and literary criticism, and verse dramas for stage and radio, of which Fire in the Snow (1939), about Scott's Antarctic expedition, is recognized as a classic of radio drama. His major contributions to Australian literature include biographies, two collections of bush ballads (1955–7), edited with Nancy Keesing (1923–93), and Modern Australian Verse (1964). |
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