Eleanor Dark
Eleanor Dark AO was an Australian writer whose novels included Prelude to Christopher (1934) and Return to Coolami (1936), both winners of the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for literature, and her best known work The Timeless Land (1941).
26 August 1901
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Born in the same month (August 1901): Arnulfo Arias • Chen Yi (marshal) • Claude Autant-Lara • Dutch Schultz • Ernest Lawrence • Guy Bush • Hans Kammler • Jimmy Rushing • John C. Stennis • Louis Armstrong • Pyotr Novikov