Letters from John Tierney to Douglas Stewart, 1944-1955

MLMSS 7848

fonds

1944-1955

840016

Microfilm : CY 4916, frames 526-548

0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder) - manuscript

John Tierney was an author who published four collections of short stories First Furrow (1944), Cookabundy Bridge (1946, awarded the S. H. Prior memorial prize), The Bunyip of Barney's Elbow (1956) and The Big Burn (1965). His two novels, The Advancement of Spencer Button (1950) and Hopeton High (1963), drew on his experiences as a schoolteacher. He also published many short stories for The Bulletin under the pseudonym of Brian James and edited Selected Australian Stories (Melbourne, 1959) and Australian Short Stories (London, 1963). The Bulletin is where he met Douglas Stewart and Norman Lindsay who became a close friend. Norman Lindsay thought of John Tierney as the finest Australian writer of imaginative prose since Lawson.

Reference:
Australian Dictionary of Biography Online. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/ (accessed December 18, 2008)

This collection contains, twelve letters from John Tierney to Douglas Stewart, undated but cover the same period 1944-1955 as the letters to Norman Lindsay at MLMSS 7847. These refer to Tierney’s writings as well as Stewart’s and mention Norman Lindsay.