E.J. Brady

E.J. (Edwin James) Brady (7 August 1869 – 22 August 1952) was an Australian poet.

Life
He was born at Carcoar, New South Wales, and was educated both in the United States and Sydney. He worked as a wharf clerk, a farmer, and journalist, and edited both rural and city newspapers.

He was a friend and correspondent of Sir Edmund Barton, the first Australian prime minister, and helped to save Henry Lawson's life in 1910.

He later established a writers' and artists' colony at Mallacoota, in 1909, and he continued to live there until his death in 1952 at the age of 83.

Poetry

 * The Ways of Many Waters (1899)
 * The Earthen Floor (1902)
 * The Ways of Many Waters (1909)
 * Bushland ballads 1910
 * Bells and Hobbles (1911)
 * The House of the Winds (1919)
 * Wardens of the Seas (1933)

Prose

 * Sydney Harbour (1903)