[1] He was also a keen semi-amateur naturalist, producing an important work in that discipline, The Incredible Egg from 1974, and having published numerous articles in major American natural journals.
Stivens was widely read through the forties and fifties, with his stories being heavily anthologized and included in many school readers of the time.
[2] Stivens also wrote under a number of stories and many newspaper articles under the pseudonyms Jack Tarrant, John Sidney, Sam Johnson and L'Arva Street.
[2] Stivens died in Sydney on 15 June 1997[3] after many years of domesticity in Lindfield, NSW, with Juanita Cragen, to whom he left his literary estate.
The Dal Stivens Award was inaugurated in 2007 and is presented every two years to a writer 30 or younger for an essay or literary short story.