John Arthur Barry

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John Arthur Barry (1850 – 23 September 1911), was a journalist and author.

John Arthur Barry was born in Torquay, Devonshire, England, in 1850. His parents died when he was a child, and going to sea at 13 he was in the merchant service for 12 years.

Leaving with a first mate's certificate he came to Australia in the 1870s, and after working in Queensland, spent some years as a drover, boundary rider and station manager. He began writing for the press and contributed stories to the Australasian, Sydney Mail, The Queenslander , the Town and Country Journal, the Pall Mall Gazette, and others. In 1893 he spent a holiday in England and published a collection of his stories, Steve Brown's Bunyip and other Stories. He had become acquainted with Rudyard Kipling who wrote an introductory poem for the volume.

Barry returned to Australia and about 1896 joined the staff of the Sydney Evening News, and in the same year another collection of his stories was published, In the Great Deep: Tales of the Sea. This was followed by two novels, The Luck of the Native Born (1898), and A Son of the Sea (1899). Three collections of short stories followed, Against the Tides of Fate (1899), Red Lion and Blue Star (1902), and Sea Yarns (1910). South Sea Shipmates, a sea story, was published posthumously in 1914. Barry died in Sydney on 23 September 1911.

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This article incorporates text from the public domain 1949 edition of Dictionary of Australian Biography from
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Persondata
NAME Barry, John Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION English-Australian seaman, journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Torquay, Devonshire, England, United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH 23 September 1911
PLACE OF DEATH Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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