Harold Edward James Aldridge (born 10 July 1918) is a multi-award winning Australian author and journalist whose WWII despatches were published worldwide and formed the basis of several of his novels, including the prize-winning The Sea Eagle about Australian troops in Crete. Aldridge was born in Swan Hill, Victoria and moved to London in 1938; he currently lives in Battersea, South West London. Some of his stories are based on the real living conditions of his hometown such as his 1995 Children's Book Council of Australia book of the year The True Story of Lilli Stubeck, one of his St Helen series of children's books. He lived in Cairo for many years, writing several books about the Middle East, including Cairo - Biography of a City and the novels The Diplomat and Heroes of the Empty View. He won a Lenin Peace Prize in 1972 for 'his outstanding struggle for the preservation of peace'. He has also won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the World Peace Council Gold Medal, and was awarded the Gold Medal for Journalism by the Organisation for International Journalists in 1972. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Aldridge
Dzheĭms Oldridzh, 1963 p. 7 (b. 7-10-1918 in Australia; literary author)
Goodbye un-America, c1979 t.p. (James Aldridge)
Info from Univ. of Newcastle Libraries, New South Wales, Australia, 10-03-95 (Australian National Bib. hdg. is Aldridge, James, 1918- )
Contemp. authors, new rev., 1984 v. 13 (Aldridge, (Harold Edward) James; b. July 10, 1918, White Hills, Victoria, Australia)
Directory of Australian authors, 1989 (Aldridge, James; b. 10/7/1918)
Monash biog. dict. of 20th cent. Australia, 1994 (Aldridge, (Harold Edward) James; b. 10 July 1919 [sic])
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al-Jibāl wa-al-silāḥ, 1979 p. 3 (al-kātib al-Inkilīzī al-taqaddumī Jaymis Ūldirīdij)
Text Publishing WWW site, Oct. 2, 2015 (James Aldridge; Harold Edward James Aldridge; b. 1918, White Hills, Vic., d. 2015; author of more than thirty books for adults and young adults, including novels, short stories, plays and non-fiction, as well as television scripts and journalism) https://www.textpublishing.com.au/authors/jamesaldridge
