Sydney Morning Herald website dated 2 November 2007 and viewed on 30 April 2008 Obituary (Life dates 1923-2007) <U+2021>uhttp://www.smh.com.au/news/books/author-rolls-dies-aged-84/2007/11/02/1193619139020.html
Obituaries Australia website, viewed 11 March 2015 Sydney Morning Herald obit. (Rolls, Eric Charles (1923-2007; Eric Rolls was a farmer, poet, cook, fisherman and a supreme writer about the history and nature of his own country. Eric won selection to Fort Street High, before serving in New Guinea in World War II. For 45 years from 1946 he farmed his own land in the north-west of NSW on the edges of the "Pilliga Scrub", a forest he made famous in his book A Million Wild Acres. Author of more than 20 books, his honours include a Member of the Order of Australia, fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and an array of literary awards, the Captain Cook Bicentenary Award for Non-Fiction, the C. J. Dennis Prize, The Age Book of the Year, the John Franklin Award for children's books, the Greening Australia Journalism Award, the Landcare Media Award, the Braille Book of the Year and the Talking Book of the Year.
