David Campbell was born at 'Ellerslie Station' near Adelong in New South Wales in 1915. Early poems, most of which first appeared in The Bulletin , were published in Speak with the Sun (London, 1949). This volume was followed by The Miracle of Mullion Hill (1956) and Evening Under Lamplight (1959), a collection of short stories. His last book, The Man in the Honeysuckle was posthumously published and posthumously awarded the NSW Premier's Prize for Poetry in 1979, as well as the Fellowship of Australian Writers' Christopher Brennan Award and the Grace Leven Prize. He died in Canberra on 29th July, 1979.
