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Name	John Lindsay
Born	20 October, 1900 East Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died	8 March, 1990 (aged 89) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Related Entries	[View as tree] Lindsay, Norman Alfred (father) Lindsay, Percival Charles (uncle) Lindsay, Lionel Arthur (uncle) Lindsay, Ruby (uncle) Lindsay, Ernest Daryl (uncle) Lindsay, Joan à Beckett (aunt by marriage) Elkington, John Simeon Colebrook (uncle by marriage) Dyson, William Henry (uncle by marriage) Partridge, Eric Honeywood (university friend) Michie, John Lundie (teacher) Kirtley, John Thomas (collaborator) Slessor, Kenneth Adolf (collaborator) Stephensen, Percy Reginald (collaborator) Penton, Brian Con (collaborator)
Occupation or Descriptor *	book publisher (1926-1930) Overseas novelist (1934-1990) Overseas communist (1936-1990) Overseas literary critic (1950-1970) Overseas historian (general) (1960-1990) Overseas biographer (1966-1975) Overseas autobiographer/memoirist (1982-1982) Overseas

* Dates are approximate