Max Fatchen

Maxwell Edgar Fatchen, AM (3 August 1920 – 14 October 2012) was an Australian children's writer and journalist.

He learned to drive a team of Clydesdale horses and did part of his secondary school studies at home, driving his horse and buggy once a week to Gawler High School to have his papers corrected.

[citation needed] He entered journalism as a copy boy, and after five years in the Australian Army[4] and Royal Australian Air Force[5] during World War II, he became a journalist with The News and later The Advertiser.

[citation needed] Four decades of writing for children, especially those of primary school age, began in 1966 with The River Kings.

[7] Andrew Male Other Times Wakefield Press, Adelaide (1997) includes selections from Max's writings, many not previously republished ISBN 9781862543836[12]