R. D. FitzGerald

Robert David FitzGerald was born on 22 February 1902 in Hunters Hill, Sydney. After two years of science at university, he became a surveyor like his father and grandfather, and from 1931 to 1936 worked for the Fijian native lands commission, surveying tribal boundaries. He then joined the federal Department of the Interior, which he left in the mid-sixties. He published about ten collections, won the Grace Leven Prize three times and the Frost Medal in 1974, and died in May 1987 in Glen Innes, New South Wales.

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• PoetryBetween Two TidesR. D. FitzGerald · 1952Literature