Dennis McEldowney

Richard Dennis McEldowney (29 January 1926 – 23 September 2003) was a New Zealand author and publisher.

Auto-biographical in nature, it described how he dealt with being an invalid due to having a Tetralogy of Fallot.

This book won McEldowney the 1958 Hubert Church Memorial Prize.

[1] McEldowney was born on 29 January 1926[2] in Wanganui, and grew up in Christchurch.

Eventually he took a clerical job at the School of Physical Education at the University of Otago in Dunedin.