Will Lawson (2 September 1876 – 13 October 1957), born in Durham, England, was a popular bush poet, novelist, journalist and historian of Australia.

[3] The family moved to Brisbane, Australia around 1885, where Lawson received some education, then moved back to Wellington, New Zealand,[1][3] where he worked as a clerk in an insurance office, and began writing poems for The Bulletin.

In 1912 Lawson returned to Australia and joined the staff of Sydney's Evening News, also writing for Smith's Weekly and The Bulletin.

In 1924 and 1925 Lawson went to San Francisco as the publicity officer for the Union Steamship Company.

[1] He was associated with the Sydney Bohemian artistic scene and such well-known figures as poet and later politician Randolph Bedford (1868–1941), journalist and writer Edward Dyson (1865–1931), illustrator Will Dyson (1880–1938), artist Livingston Hopkins (1846–1927), landscape painter Percy Lindsay (1870–1952), and poet Roderic Quinn (1867–1949).