Jack Lindsay

Robert Leeson Jack Lindsay (1900 - 1990) was an Australian-born writer, who from 1926 lived in the United Kingdom, initially in Essex. He was born in Melbourne, and was son of Norman Lindsay.

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1900 - 1990 - Australia - United Kingdom - Essex - Melbourne - Norman Lindsay

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He was educated at the University of Queensland. In the 1920s he edited the literary magazines Vision and alter London Aphrodite, also founding with P. R. Stephensen and John Kirtley the Fanfrolico Press for fine publishing, initially in North Sydney; and was a published poet.

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University of Queensland - P. R. Stephensen - John Kirtley - North Sydney

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In the 1930s the Press ceased as a business. He moved to the left politically, writing for Left Review and joining the Communist Party of Great Britain at the end of the decade, and becoming an activist. He started writing novels while living in Cornwall; his works were published successfully in the USSR under the name Richard Preston. He collaborated, amongst others, with Edgell Rickword.

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Communist Party of Great Britain - Cornwall - USSR - Edgell Rickword

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During World War II, he served in the British Army initially in the Royal Signal Corps. From 1943 he worked for the War Office on theatrical scripts.

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World War II - British Army - Royal Signal Corps

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