Seaforth Mackenzie (author)

Seaforth Mackenzie (author)

Kenneth Ivo Brownley Langwell Mackenzie (Pen name: Kenneth Seaforth Mackenzie) (25 September 1913 - 19 January 1955), was an Australian poet and novelist.

He was born in South Perth, Western Australia, grew up in Pinjarra, Western Australia, attended Guildford Grammar School and died by accidental drowning in Tallong Creek near Goulburn, New South Wales.

His novel "Dead Men rising" was about the Cowra breakout of which he had first hand experience having been stationed there at the time of the event.

Novels

*"The Young Desire it" London, Cape. 1937
*"Chosen People" London, Cape. 1938
*"Dead men Rising" London, Cape. 1951
*"The Refuge" London, Cape. 1954

Poetry

*"Our Earth" Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1937
*"The Moonlit Doorway" Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1944

As editor

* "Australian poetry, 1951-2" (selected by Kenneth Mackenzie) Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1952.

Compilations

* Rossiter, Richard (editor) (2000) "The Model: Selected Writings of Kenneth Seaforth Mackenzie" Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press. ISBN 1-876268-34-4

Biographical material

* Jones, Evan (1969) "Kenneth Mackenzie: Australian Writers and their Work" Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
* Kinross-Smith, Graeme (1980) "Australian Writers" Melbourne: Thomas Nelson.

External links

* http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150285b.htm

Persondata
NAME=Mackenzie, Kenneth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Seaforth Mackenzie (pen name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Twentieth century Australian poet and novelist
DATE OF BIRTH=25 September 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH=South Perth, Western Australia
DATE OF DEATH=19 January 1955
PLACE OF DEATH=Goulburn, New South Wales


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