Louis Kaye was the pseudonym of Noel Wilson Norman (14 July 1901 – 19 April 1981), an Australian novelist and short story writer.
He was born in Claremont, Tasmania to a well-connected Lindisfarne family but was more interested in an adventurous outback life than one of business and politics.
[1] He was already a successful contributor of short stories to overseas magazines in 1931 when he wrote his first novel, Tybal Men, set in a WA sheep station.
He is regarded as giving a realistic depiction of bush life and aboriginal culture, though criticised for emulating the "violent excesses of the American cowboy novel".
[2] His brother Don (Donald Manners Thirkell) Norman (24 April 1909 – 10 March 2001) was a writer (e.g. Errol Flynn : the Tasmanian story W.N.