E. J. (Edwin James) Brady was born at Carcoar , New South Wales, in 1869, 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.

Bibliography

• The Ways of Many Waters (1899)
• Bells and Hobbles (1911)
• The House of the Winds (1919)
• Wardens of the Seas (1933)

External Links

• Edwin James Brady from the Old Poetry Archive