Oliver Walker (1906–25 Dec 1965) was a journalist and writer of fiction and non-fiction works predominantly about South Africa where he lived for most of his adult life.
His father was the Western Mail leader writer and founder member of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), James Atkinson Walker (1878–1954).
[2] Walker started his journalistic career in the UK, living in Cardiff, London and Bristol, before emigrating to South Africa in 1937.
He worked briefly for Schlesinger's Daily Express in Johannesburg, and wrote about this period in his autobiographical novel Wanton City (1949).
[1] In 1944, he was seconded to the Native Affairs Department in Pretoria, where he was assigned "a war-time propaganda job for the State Bureau of Information".