William Satchell

William Arthur Satchell (1 February 1861 – 21 October 1942) was a New Zealand orchardist, writer, stockbroker, novelist and accountant.

[1] In 1886 he decided to emigrate to New Zealand for his health, and settled at Waimā in the Hokianga area of the North Island, on a property that he cleared and farmed.

The Greenstone Door (1914) is a romantic adventure of inter-racial relationships set in the Auckland region during the wars in the middle decades of the nineteenth century.

[2] Satchell lived in Kopu, near Thames, between 1917 and 1928, working as an accountant for a timber company.

[4] In 1996, in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, Kendrick Smithyman said The Land of the Lost, The Toll of the Bush and The Greenstone Door "represent the most significant achievement in New Zealand fiction before the First World War".