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Douglas Stewart

Died in 1985

Douglas Stewart was born on 6 May 1913 in Eltham, New Zealand. After a first visit to Sydney in 1933, he settled there in 1938 at the Bulletin, whose literary page he edited from 1940 to 1961. He then joined Angus and Robertson, where he looked after a series of Australian poets. He wrote thirteen collections of poems, five verse plays, short stories, essays and biographies of Norman Lindsay and Kenneth Slessor. He died on 14 February 1985 in Hornsby, near Sydney.

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