Norman Lindsay(1879-1969)
- Writer
- Art Department
Australian illustrator and novelist Norman Lindsay was born in
Creswick, Victoria, in 1879. His father was a physician, but Norman and
his brothers had a streak of artistic and literary talent in them
(which Norman passed on to his son, the writer
Jack Lindsay). At 16 years of age
Norman got a job as an illustrator on a Melbourne newspaper, and in
1901 he became the chief cartoonist on the "Sydney Bulletin". Lindsay
has worked in virtually all mediums of art--watercolors, lithographs,
pen-and-ink drawings, etchings, engravings, even sculpturing in cement.
He became Australia's best-known illustrator, and it wasn't long before
he branched out into writing, in which he also met with great success.
Many of his novels were on the "rowdy" side--a reaction to the somewhat
oppressive and puritanical aspects of Australian life at the time--full
of men drinking, "wenching" and getting in all sorts of trouble, and
readers really took to them. His work was not only popular in Australia
(where much of it was censored) but also in America (where none of it
was censored).
He died in Sydney in 1969, age 90.
He died in Sydney in 1969, age 90.
