About the Author

A. B. ‘Banjo’ Paterson was born at Narrambla, New South Wales, in 1864. He practised law until 1900, when he found success as a writer, contributing ballads to the Sydney BULLETIN. During the Boer War, Paterson worked as a war correspondent for the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD and remained in journalism, continuing to write poetry and fiction, and broadcasting as well. He died in 1941.