Ronald Hugh Morrieson
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Ronald Hugh Morrieson (b. January 29, 1922, d. 1972, in Hawera, Taranaki) was a novelist and short story writer in New Zealand vernacular. His novels include Came A Hot Friday, Scarecrow, The Predicament and Pallet on the Floor. Three of his novels were adapted for the cinema, The Predicament being the odd one out.
There is a story associated with him that he complained to Maurice Shadbolt in early 1972, “I hope I’m not another one of these poor buggers who get discovered when they’re dead”, only to die in obscurity in his small home town of Hawera several years before Came A Hot Friday and The Scarecrow became successful movies in the 1980s.
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