Gordon Neil Stewart, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian author
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Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
About Gordon Neil Stewart
- Gordon Neil Stewart (25 June 1912 – 15 February 1999) was an Australian writer. Stewart was born in Melbourne into a wealthy Australian family with pastoral interests in the Bathurst district of New South Wales.
- He was a great grandson of Major General William Stewart (1769–1854) Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales from 1825 to 1827.
- Stewart received a spasmodic education at The Scots College, Sydney due to his parents' frequent travels, but developed a love of reading from long holidays spent in the library of his uncle's house (Abercrombie House) in Bathurst.
- The family moved to Paris when Stewart was in his late teens.
- He attended an English language school and then studied art.
- With other members of his family now based in England, Stewart settled in London where he worked from time to time as a journalist and became involved in radical politics.
- He mixed in literary circles and met Pamela Hansford Johnson and Dylan Thomas.
- He is said to have been banished from the poetry circle of Victor Neuburg, a former associate of occultist Aleister Crowley, for making jokes about 'yogis and bogeys'.
- In 1936 he married the novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson (1s 1941, 1d 1944) with whom he collaborated on two thrillers under the name Nap Lombard.
- When the Second World War broke out he joined the British army and served as an officer in the artillery in India and Burma.
- After his divorce from Pamela Hansford Johnson, Stewart married Doreen Ellen Coulling in 1950 (1d 1952).
- In 1953 he published The Cloak and Dollar War, the first book to be written about the Central Intelligence Agency, described by intelligence scholar Richard J Aldrich as a revelatory text.
- Stewart returned to Australia in 1955 and worked in Sydney as a journalist for the mining and construction industry.
- He retired to Bathurst in 1983 where he died on 15 February 1999.
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