Maurice Reginald (Rex) Hunter (5 January 1889 – 18 February 1960) was a New Zealand poet, playwright and fiction writer.
His father, Thomas Hunter, was a local storekeeper and a native of Scotland, and Rex was his fourth child.
He returned to New Zealand in 1912 near when his father died (in March 1914) and worked for several years at The Press (Christchurch) and in Auckland.
He wrote articles for this paper on his wanderings in Britain from John O'Groats to Land's End and the boulevards of Paris.
Rex Hunter published five books in his lifetime, all in America: Stuff O' Dreams (1919), a book of four one-act plays; And Tomorrow Comes (1924), a collection of poetry; The Saga of Sinclair (1927), an autobiographical narrative poem; Porlock: A Portrait (1940), a novel; and Call Out of Darkness (1946), a final collection of poetry.
In Australia, he wrote words for a song When the Wattle Blooms Again with music composed by Nellie Kolle, published in Melbourne.
[7] Hunter maintained literary ties with New Zealand through Noel Hoggard's handprinted Pukerua Bay magazine, Arena.
After Hunter's death, Gamel Woolsey scholar and editor, Kenneth Hopkins, reprinted two of his books, The Saga of Sinclair (1981) and And Tomorrow Comes (1982).