Kenneth Attiwill (1906–1992)

Kenneth Andrew Attiwill was born on 23 September 1906 in Adelaide, Australia, brother of Keith Attiwill. He worked as a journalist in Adelaide, as well as in Melbourne and London. On 1939, he married Evadne Price in Kent, England. He was a Japanese prisoner of war in the second world war. His novels draw on his experiences in journalism, at war and at sea. He was resident in England for some years after war, before he and her wife retired to their native Australia in 1976. Her wife died on 17 April 1985 in Sydney, and he in 1992.