E. J. Brady

E. J. Brady
Born Edwin James Brady
(1869-08-07)7 August 1869
Carcoar, New South Wales, Australia
Died 22 August 1952(1952-08-22) (aged 83)
Pambula, New South Wales, Australia
Nationality Australian
Occupation poet and journalist

E. J. (Edwin James) Brady (7 August 1869 – 22 August 1952) was an Australian poet.

He was born at Carcoar, New South Wales, 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 at the age of 83. A passionate nationalist, he achieved his greatest fame with his book Australia Unlimited, a bestseller from its appearance in 1918, which urged dramatic increases in the national population.

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Poetry

Lines from his poem Far and Wide introduce the Melbourne tourism ad running on ESPN2 during the 2016 Australian Open.

Prose

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