Eric C. Rolls aggregated collection of papers

fonds

1877-1987

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs

9661089

11.90 metres of textual material (75 boxes and 8 volumes) including photographs

Eric Rolls was a farmer, poet, cook, fisherman and writer about the history and nature of his own country. He was educated at Fort Street High, before serving in New Guinea in World War II. He wrote more than twenty books including A Million Wild Acres, his first non-fiction book, They All Ran Wild (1969), From Forest to Sea, Visions of Australia, and Australia: A Biograph. His published poetry includes Sheaf Tosser, The Green Mosaic and Selected Poems. He was an outstanding historian of the Chinese in Australia, demonstrated by his two-volume Flowers and the Wide Sea (Sojourners in 1992 and Citizens in 1996).
His honours include a Member of the Order of Australia, fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and an array of literary awards, the Captain Cook Bicentenary Award for Non-Fiction, the C. J. Dennis Prize, The Age Book of the Year, the John Franklin Award for children's books, the Greening Australia Journalism Award, the Landcare Media Award, the Braille Book of the Year and the Talking Book of the Year.
Reference:
https://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/rolls-eric-charles-19069

COLLECTION 1
Eric C. Rolls papers, 1965-1968

COLLECTION 2
Eric C. Rolls further papers, 1877-1987