John Hepworth (writer)

John Hepworth (4 September 1921 – 24 January 1995) was an Australian author and journalist, best known for his "Outsight" column in Nation Review magazine, which he edited for several years.

Career

He was born in Pinjarra, Western Australia, and moved to Perth as a young boy. He attended Perth Modern School.

With the outbreak of World War II, he enlisted and served in the Middle East, Ceylon and New Guinea.

He wrote the regular "Outsight" column for Nation Review and was its editor for several years, then contributed to Toorak Times,[1] the eccentric weekly newspaper published by Jack Pacholli (1929-2004).[2]

He also worked for the ABC, earning the attention of ASIO as a Communist sympathiser.[3]

He died from lung cancer.

Family

He had a longterm relationship with writer Oriel Gray, with whom he had two sons, Peter and Nicholas.[4] Peter Hepworth (1948 – 2011) had a successful career writing for television, including episodes of The Sullivans, Flying Doctors, The Henderson Kids and Blue Heelers.[5]

Bibliography
  • The Long Green Shore Pan Macmillan Australia (1995) ISBN 0330357034 written for a Sydney Morning Herald literary contest
  • Lurie, Morris (ed) John Hepworth ... His Book (a collection of his "Outsight" articles, illustrated by Michael Leunig) Angus and Robertson 1978 ISBN 0207136270
  • The Last of the Rainbow Yackandandah Playscripts (1963) ISBN 0868050547
  • The Multitude of Tigers (1990)
  • (with John Hindle) Boozing Out in Melbourne Town (1980)
  • Around the Bend (an account of a 1983 rafting trip he undertook with Hindle and Patrick Amer down the River Murray and filmed by an ABC camera crew)
  • Little Australian Library Dynamo House ISBN 0949266000
  • (with Michael Leunig) The Almanac of Unspeakable Colonial Acts Dynamo House (1986) ISBN 0949266191

For children:

  • (with Bob Ellis) Top Kid Puffin (1985) ISBN 0140084126 based on Ellis's television drama
  • (with Bob Ellis) The Paper Boy Puffin (1985) ISBN 0140084150 based on Ellis's television drama
  • (with Steve Spears) The Big Wish Puffin (1990) ISBN 0140144625 based on Spears' television drama for Australian Children's Television Foundation

Sources

Wilde, William; H. Hooton, Joy and Andrews, Barry The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature Oxford University Press 1985 ISBN 0 19 553381 X

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References
  1. Walsh, Richard (ed.) Ferretabilia ... Life and times of the Nation Review University of Queensland Press 1993
  2. "A Midas touch for failure - Obituaries". www.smh.com.au. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
  3. David at 19 July 2006 11:28 PM (19 July 2006). "Beyond Right and Left". Beyond Right and Left. Archived from the original on 29 August 2007. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
  4. Fiorovanti, David (3 July 2003). "Oriel Gray, 'playwright of ideas', dies aged 83". The Age.
  5. "Golvan Arts Management: Peter Hepworth". Golvanarts.com.au. Archived from the original on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
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