The Big Fellow

Edward Vivian "Vance" Palmer (1885-1959) was an Australian novelist, dramatist, essayist, and critic born in Bundaberg, Queensland. Notable for his novels like The Passage (1930), the political trilogy starting with Golconda (1948), and The Legend of the Nineties (1954), as well as short story collections such as Let the Birds Fly (1955), he co-founded the Pioneer Players theater group and promoted Australian literature alongside his wife Nettie.Australian Dictionary of Biography. His work emphasized Australian nationalism, rural life, and social themes with disciplined diction.