Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson was born on 17 June 1867 on the Grenfell goldfield, in New South Wales, to a Norwegian father, Niels Larsen, and to Louisa Lawson. An ear infection left him deaf in his youth. He worked as a painter, wrote for newspapers, married in 1896 and lived in England from 1900 to 1902 according to the State Library of New South Wales. An alcoholic, he was imprisoned several times at Darlinghurst, for drunkenness or for unpaid board debts according to the same source. He died on 2 September 1922 at Abbotsford, in Sydney, and was given a state funeral.

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• Short storiesWhile the Billy BoilsHenry Lawson · 1896Literature