(Osman Edward or Ted) Middleton (born 25 March 1925 in Christchurch, died 14 August 2010 in Dunedin) was a New Zealand writer of short stories, described as belonging to the vernacular critical realist tradition of Frank Sargeson.
[1] He was the brother of noted New Zealand novelist Ian Middleton, and like him also blind from middle age.
[2] Mentored by Frank Sargeson in Auckland in the late 1950s, he moved to Dunedin to take up the Robert Burns Fellowship (1970) at the University of Otago.
He's the only NZ writer who has made me weep over a story — one called The Stone in a volume of that title.
A plaque featuring a quote from Middleton's 1970 Notebook was unveiled in February 2022 as part of the Dunedin Writer's Walk.