John Arthur Barry

John Arthur Barry
Born1850 (1850)
Torquay, Devon, England
Died23 September 1911(1911-09-23) (aged 60–61)
North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupationjournalist and author
LanguageEnglish
Years active1882–1907

John Arthur Barry (1850 – 23 September 1911) was a journalist and author.[1]

Barry was born in Torquay, Devonshire, England, in 1850.[1] He moved to Australia in the 1870s.

He returned to shipboard life around 1877 along the east coast of Australia for about two years.[2]

Barry died in Sydney on 23 September 1911 of chronic myocarditis.[1]

Bibliography

Novels

  • The Luck of the Native Born (1898)
  • A Son of the Sea (1899)

Short story collections

  • Steve Brown's Bunyip and Other Stories (1893)
  • In the Great Deep: Tales of the Sea (1896)
  • Against the Tides of Fate (1899)
  • Red Lion and Blue Star (1902)
  • Sea Yarns (1910)
  • South Sea Shipmates (1913)

References

  1. ^ a b c "John Arthur Barry (1850–1911)". John Arthur Barry (1850–1911) by H. P. Heseltine. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  2. ^ "Steve Brown's Bunyip and Other Stories by John Arthur Barry". Austlit. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
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