Leslie Rees (author)

Leslie Rees
Born George Leslie Clarke Rees
(1905-12-28)28 December 1905
Perth, Western Australia
Died 17 August 2000(2000-08-17) (aged 94)
Sydney, New South Wales
Occupation writer
Language English
Nationality Australian
Notable works The Story of Karrawingi the Emu
Notable awards Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers 1946
Years active 1929-1997
Spouse Coralie Clarke Rees

Leslie Rees (1905–2000) was an Australian author and writer for children who was born and raised in Perth Western Australia.[1]

He attended Perth Modern School and then the University of Western Australia, where he edited the student magazine, Black Swan. He then worked for The West Australian as a journalist before travelling to London to study at University College on a scholarship. It was while there that he married fellow West Australian, Coralie Clarke, who had been a sub-editor during his time on the Black Swan.[1]

Rees returned to Australia in 1936 to become the Australian Broadcasting Commission's first federal drama editor in Sydney. He was also President of PEN (Sydney) for a number of years.

As a writer Rees is best known as a prolific author of children's books as well as written travel books, plays and an autobiography.

He died in Sydney on 17 August 2000.[1]

Bibliography

Novel

  • Danger Patrol (1954)

Children's fiction

  • Digit Dick on the Barrier Reef (1942)
  • The Story of Shy the Platypus (1944)
  • Gecko : The Lizard Who Lost His Tail (1944)
  • The Story of Karrawingi the Emu (1946)
  • Digit Dick and the Tasmanian Devil (1946)
  • The Story of Sarli the Barrier Reef Turtle (1947)
  • The Story of Kurri Kurri the Kookaburra (1948)
  • Bluecap and Bimbi : The Blue Wrens (1948)
  • Mates of the Kurlalong (1948)
  • Quokka Island (1951)
  • The Story of Aroora the Red Kangaroo (1952)
  • Digit Dick in the Black Swan Land (1952)
  • Two Thumbs : The Story of a Koala (1953)
  • The Story of Koonawarra the Black Swan (1957)
  • Digit Dick and the Lost Opals (1957)
  • The Story of Wy-lah the Cockatoo (1959)
  • The Story of Russ the Australian Tree Kangaroo (1964)
  • Boy Lost of Tropic Coast : Adventure Dexter Hardy (1968)
  • The Big Book of Digit Dick (1973)
  • Mokee, the White Possum (1973)
  • Panic in Cattle Country (1974)
  • Here's to Shane (1977)
  • Digit Dick and the Magic Jabiru (1981)
  • Digit Dick and the Zoo Plot (1982)
  • The Seagull Who Liked Cricket (1997)

Drama

  • The Man With the Money : A Drama (1948)
  • The Harp in the South (1949) - based on the Ruth Park novel of the same title
  • Modern Short Plays (1951) edited
  • Mask and Microphone : Plays (1963) edited

Travel

  • Spinifex Walkabout : Hitch-hiking in Remote North Australia (1953)
  • Westward from Cocos : Indian Ocean Travels (1956)
  • Coasts of Cape York : travels around Australia's pearl-tipped peninsula (1960)

Autobiography

  • Hold Fast to Dreams : Fifty Years in Theatre, Radio, Television and Books (1982)

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 3 Austlit - Leslie Rees
  2. ↑ "Book of the Year: Children's Story by Leslie Rees", The West Australian, 13 November 1946, p8
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