Name E. Brady | Role Poet | |
Died August 22, 1952, Mallacoota, Australia Books Tom Pagdin, Pirate, The House of the Winds - Scholar's Choice Edition | ||
E. J. (Edwin James) Brady (7 August 1869 – 22 August 1952) was an Australian poet.
He was born at Carcoar, New South Wales, and was educated both in the United States and Sydney. He worked as a wharf clerk, a farmer, and journalist, and edited both rural and city newspapers.
He was a friend and correspondent of Sir Edmund Barton, the first Australian prime minister, and helped to save Henry Lawson's life in 1910.
He later established a writers' and artists' colony at Mallacoota, in 1909, and he continued to live there until his death in 1952 at the age of 83. A passionate nationalist, he achieved his greatest fame with his book Australia Unlimited, a bestseller from its appearance in 1918, which urged dramatic increases in the national population.