H. A. Lindsay (1900–1969) was an Australian writer for children who was born in

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Life and career

As a child he was educated at Kyre College (now Scotch College, Adelaide). 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.Australian Dictionary of Biography - Lindsay, Harold Arthur by Kerrie Round
/ref> After the war he became a full-time writer and broadcaster, writing regular columns for the Melbourne ''Age'' and Adelaide ''Sunday Advertiser'' newspapers, and for '' The Port Phillip Gazette''. 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.Austlit - ''The First Walkabout'' by Norman B. Tindale & Harold Arthur Lindsay
/ref> He died in

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in 1969.

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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lindsay, H. A. 1900 births 1969 deaths 20th-century Australian novelists Australian children's writers Australian beekeepers 20th-century Australian non-fiction writers 20th-century Australian male writers Australian male novelists Australian male non-fiction writers Writers from South Australia