Writer and novelist. Frank Dalby Davison was born at Hawthorn, Melbourne in 1893. Davison won the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1931 for his novel Man-shy. His interest in soil erosion and deforestation led to his stories Blue coast caravan (1935), The wasteland (1935), and Children of the dark people (1936). Davison was awarded a Commonwealth Literary Fund Fellowship in 1939-1940. He made political commentary through his literature "to reveal the Australian situation and to promote liberal democratic values." He saw literature as a means by which people might be helped to know themselves and their society as a necessary prelude to reform. Further biographical information at http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/459425
Edna Marie McNab became Frank Dalby Davison's second wife when they married at Paddington, Sydney in 1944.
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