John Yeomans (writer)
{{Short description|Australian journalist and writer}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name = John Storie Yeomans
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1916|5|15|df=y}}[https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=6166850&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjEyMDMzNDk1MywiaWF0IjoxNTg3MTMzNzk5LCJleHAiOjE1ODcyMjAxOTl9.W2pQZGwj4tiZenk0l-M07If26fwrgKhuJsfVUcSHlAs Obituary]
| birth_place = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia{{Cite web|last=|title=John Yeomans|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A12493|access-date=2021-08-30|website=AustLit: Discover Australian Stories|language=en}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1995|6|9|1916|5|15|df=y}}
| death_place = Balgowlah Heights, New South Wales, Australia
| occupation = writer and journalist
| language = English
| nationality = Australian
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| years_active = 1969–1984
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John Storie Yeomans (15 May 1916 – 9 June 1995) was an Australian journalist and writer.
Career
During the 1960s and later, he wrote a range of books about Australia, Sydney and Sydney Opera House.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131791375 |title=Utzon the image maker |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=43 |issue=12,344 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=21 June 1969 |accessdate=10 December 2016 |page=13 |via=National Library of Australia}}
His most well-known book was written about his trip around Australia, The Scarce Australians, published by Penguin in 1969.{{Citation | author1=Yeomans, John | title=The Scarce Australians | date=1969 | publisher=Penguin Books | isbn=978-0-14-002965-9 }}{{Citation | author1=Herald and Weekly Times | title=John Yeomans [author of "The Scarce Australians"] | date=1967 | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/167571262 | accessdate=10 December 2016 }}{{Citation | author1=Herald and Weekly Times | title=John Yeomans | date=1973 | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/167571261 | accessdate=10 December 2016 }} The book was based on a journey undertaken between May and September 1965.{{rp|22–29}} The dust-jacket of the Penguin edition of The Scarce Australians summarizes the authors life and journalistic career thus:
Born and educated in Sydney...AIF field artillery subaltern in WWII... sub-editor in Fleet Street ...copy-editor in Canada ...staff correspondent for Australian papers in New York and London... sometime resident in Middle East and Papua
In 1978 he was in an accident where he almost lost an arm.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article110916327 |title=Almost lost arm, gets job |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=53 |issue=15,728 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=14 October 1978 |accessdate=10 December 2016 |page=12 |via=National Library of Australia}}
Works
- {{Citation | author1=Yeomans, John | title=The scarce Australians | date=1967 | publisher=Longmans | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/11773845 | accessdate=10 December 2016 }}
- {{Citation | author1=Yeomans, John | title=The other Taj Mahal : what happened to the Sydney Opera House | date=1973 | publisher=Longman Australia | edition=[New | isbn=978-0-582-71209-6 }}
- {{Citation | author1=Hornibrook Group | author2=Yeomans, John | title=Building the Sydney Opera House | date=1973 | publisher=[Hornibrook Group] | isbn=978-0-9598748-0-8 }}
- {{Citation | author1=Yeomans, John | title=A guide to the Sydney Opera House | date=1973 | publisher=Sydney Opera House Trust | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/9329708 | accessdate=10 December 2016 | isbn=9780909654016 }}
- {{Citation | author1=Yeomans, John | title=The 20 best sights of Sydney | date=1978 | publisher=Collins | isbn=978-0-00-216414-6 }}
- {{Citation | author1=Yeomans, John | title=Harry | date=1984 | publisher=Angus & Robertson Publishers | isbn=978-0-207-14886-6 }}
- {{Citation | author1=Yeomans, John | title=Much curious pleasure : a novel | date=1987 | publisher=Angus & Robertson | isbn=978-0-207-15470-6 }}
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