Australian Dictionary of Biography

11 March, 1917
North Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

3 July, 2000 (aged 83)
Tewantin, Queensland, Australia

• English
• Scottish

• Presbyterian

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• Norman, Eldred De Bracton (husband)
• Mudie, Ian Mayelston (acquaintance)
• Robinson, Roland Edward (acquaintance)
• Ingamells, Reginald Charles (acquaintance)
• Hudson, Wilfred Frank Flexmore (acquaintance)
• Trugernanner, (subject)
• Matthews, Daniel (subject)

• Seymour College (Adelaide) (student, 1926-1933)
• South Australian School of Art (student, 1934)
• University of Adelaide (student, 1935-1939)

• poet (1926-1967) South Australia, Australia
• journalist (1935-1967) South Australia, Australia
• novelist (1950-1967) South Australia, Australia
• conservationist (1967-2000) Queensland, Australia
• novelist (1967-2000) Queensland, Australia
• poet (1967-2000) Queensland, Australia

• Member of the Order of Australia (recipient, 1984)

• Nancy Cato Park (Noosa Sound, Qld) (eponym)

• Lyre Bird Writers (member)
• Noosa Parks Association (Qld) (life member, ?-2000)
• Jindyworobak poets (member, 1938-1953)
• Fellowship of Australian Writers (SA) (member, 1954-1971)
• Australian Society of Authors (national) (councillor, 1964-2000)

• Adelaide News (newspaper) (journalist, 1934)