Kylie Tennant was born in Manly, NSW, in 1912, and educated at Brighton College and Sydney University. Her literary work covered a broad spectrum and included novels, plays, short stories, children's books, literary criticism, biography, and history. Her her best known novel, The Battlers won the Australian Literature Society’s Gold Medal and the S.H Prior Award and was turned into an ABC mini-series. Kylie Tennant died in 1988.