Margaret Balderson is an Australian novelist and writer for children who was born in Concord, New South Wales in 1935.
[1] She won the 1969 Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers award for her debut novel When Jays Fly to Barbmo.
[2] Balderson attended Fort Street High School before commencing library work.
She undertook a working holiday to Europe in the 1960s and travelled to and worked in Norway where she gathered material for her debut novel.
[2] Following her return to Australia she worked as resident house-mistress and librarian at Frensham School, Mittagong, NSW.