Robin Hyde, the pseudonym used by Iris Guiver Wilkinson (19 January 1906 – 23 August 1939), was a South African-born New Zealand poet, journalist and novelist.

She had her secondary education at Wellington Girls' College, where she wrote poetry and short stories for the school magazine.

Traumatised by the loss of her child, Hyde was hospitalised at Queen Mary Hospital in Hanmer Springs and then cared for at the family home in Wellington, though only her mother knew of the pregnancy.

[3] In 1930, while working for the Wanganui Chronicle, Hyde had an affair with the Marton-based journalist Harry Lawson Smith.

Between 1935 and 1938 she published five novels: Passport to Hell (1936), Check To Your King (1936), Wednesday's Children (1937), Nor the Years Condemn (1938), and The Godwits Fly (1938).

[citation needed] Hyde attempted to flee the area by walking along the railway lines and was eventually escorted by Japanese officials to the port city of Qingdao where she was handed over to British authorities.

Many of Hyde's literary notes and personal papers were archived by the Alexander Turnbull Library and the Special Collections at the University of Auckland.

In 2020, these archival papers were inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Aotearoa New Zealand Ngā Mahara o te Ao register.