Henry Lawson
Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922) was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest short story writer"
His mother was the famous women’s rights advocate Louisa Lawson. His father was a Norwegian gold prospector. The family moved around, following the gold rushes, until they settled near Eurunderee, New South Wales, in 1873. Lawson left school in 1880 to work with his father as a builder. His parents separated in 1883, and Henry joined his siblings and mother in Sydney, New South Wales.
In 1900 Lawson and his family moved to London, England. Lawson wrote the Joe Wilson stories (generally thought to be the high point of his writing) there. Joe Wilson and His Mates (1901) and Children of the Bush (1902) were published in the United Kingdom. Lawson and his family returned to Sydney in 1902.
After he died in 1922 following a cerebral haemorrhage, Lawson became the first Australian writer to be granted a state funeral.
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