Record ID:
35050436 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 50025015
Heading:
Birth:
  • 19250203
  • Malvern East (Vic.)
Death:
  • 20130911
  • Melbourne (Vic.)
Associated with:
  • Australia
Occupations:
  • Journalists Authors Cyclists
Used for:
  • Dunstan, John Keith, 1925-2013
Notes:
  • His Supporting a column, 1966.
  • Wowsers, 1968: title page (Keith Dunstan)
  • Wikipedia 25 January 2022: (John Keith Dunstan OAM (3 February 1925 – 11 September 2013), known as Keith Dunstan, was an Australian journalist and author. He was a prolific writer and the author of more than 25 books. Dunstan was born in East Malvern, Victoria. After serving in the R.A.A.F., in 1946 Dunstan joined The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, publishers of The Sun News-Pictorial and The Herald in Melbourne. He was Foreign Correspondent for the H&WT with posts in New York (1949–52) and London (1952–54). From 1962 he wrote regularly for the Sydney-based weekly magazine The Bulletin under the pseudonym of Batman. In 1976 and 1977 he was president of the Melbourne Press Club, and was the United States West Coast Correspondent (1979–82) for the Herald and Weekly Times. Later, he was a regular columnist and occasional contributor to The Age newspaper. He published a quartet of books on Australian character: Wowsers (1968), Knockers (1972), Sports (1973) and Ratbags (1979) and many works of history on popular subjects. An enthusiastic commuter and recreational cyclist, he was the first president of the Bicycle Institute of Victoria, from 1974; he cycled across the United States in the 1970s and through China in the 1980s. Dunstan died of cancer on 11 September 2013.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Dunstan
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)3724
  • 000000050705
  • abv00128065
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX15925
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng rda DLC OCoLC VJTL
Authentication code:
  • anuc