Elizabeth Riddell (21 March 1910 – 3 July 1998) was a New Zealand-born Australian poet and journalist.
[1] Born in Napier, New Zealand, Elizabeth Richmond Riddell came to Australia in 1928 where she worked at Smith's Weekly and won a Walkley Award.
In 1935 she moved to England and during World War II worked for Ezra Norton at The Daily Mirror, chiefly in New York City.
After the war she returned to Australia to continue working as a journalist, and in the 1960s became art critic and feature writer for The Australian.
She was the first Walkley Award winner for The Australian, winning in 1968 and 1969 for 'Best Newspaper Feature Story'.