The Mango Tree

Ronald Cecil Hamlyn McKie (1909-1991) was an Australian novelist and journalist born on 11 December 1909 in Toowoomba, Queensland.Australian Dictionary of Biography, Wikipedia Educated at Brisbane Grammar School and the University of Queensland, he worked as a journalist in Australia, Singapore, and China, served briefly in the AIF during WWII, and then as a war correspondent.Australian Dictionary of Biography His notable works include the Miles Franklin Award-winning novel The Mango Tree (1974), other novels like The Crushing (1977) and Bitter Bread (1978), and non-fiction such as The Heroes (1960).