Graeme Barrow, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Graeme Barrow

Australian writer

Date of Birth: 16-Jun-1936

Place of Birth: Greymouth, New Zealand

Date of Death: 15-May-2017

Profession: writer

Nationality: Australia, New Zealand

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Graeme Thomas Barrow OAM (16 June 1936 – 15 May 2017) was an Australian author best known for his bushwalking guide books and books on local history.
Almost all his 28 books have been self-published through his business, Dagraja Press, established in 1977. He was born in Greymouth, New Zealand, on 16 June 1936 and received an education of sorts with the Marist Brothers, leaving school at 15 1/2 years of age.
He became an apprentice hand compositor on the local newspaper, the Greymouth Evening Star, and later when he was 17 or 18 began writing articles for the paper while still an apprentice.
He was encouraged by the editor George Gaffney and, following his interest and involvement as a player in the sport, became the paper's cricket writer.
Graeme would cover local games played at weekends and write his reports on Sunday evenings.
These were based on the match he had played in and on scorebooks he collected from other games, and published in the following day's paper. About the time his apprenticeship concluded and he became a tradesman Barrow noticed an advertisement for a junior reporter on the Ashburton Guardian, published in the small town of Ashburton, south of Christchurch in New Zealand's South Island.
He applied for the position and was appointed, taking up the job in January 1957. In 2006 he won the non-fiction section of the ACT Writing and Publishing Awards for his book Unlocking History's Secrets.