Name Donald Payne | Role Author | |
Movies Walkabout, The Island at the Top of the World, The Golden Seal Books Transient Light: A Photogra, Walkabout, A river ran out of Eden, White‑out, The Rainbow Serpent a Similar People Nicolas Roeg, Edward Bond, Morton Freedgood, James Herriot, Robert Stevenson | ||
Donald Gordon Payne (born 3 January 1924 in London) is an English author.
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Biography
Using James Vance Marshall as a pseudonym, Payne has written such books as A River Ran Out of Eden (1962) and White-Out (1999). His most famous book is probably Walkabout (1959), first published as The Children and later made into a movie featuring Jenny Agutter.
Payne has also used Ian Cameron as a pseudonym/pen name. As Donald Gordon, he has published, among others, Riders of the Storm (2002), an official history of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. As Ian Cameron, he published the novel The Lost Ones (1961), later dramatized by The Walt Disney Company as the movie The Island at the Top of the World, as well as the novels The Mountains at the Bottom of the World (1972) and The White Ship (1975).
He has also edited several Reader's Digest volumes, such as the Travels & Adventure series.
He lives in Surrey, England, and has four sons and one daughter.