Background
Frank Sydney Greenop was born on 12 March 1913 in Battersea, London. When he was thirteen his father fell ill and Greenop left school.
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While Greenop was perhaps best known as editor of the then risque magazine, Manitoba, he also had wide ranging literary tastes and skills. He published historical books, children"s books and detective novels (under the pseudonym "Robert Dudgeon"). In 1923 at the age of ten his family migrated to Australia.
In 1928 he got a job with The Daily Telegraph, as a copy boy.
In 1937 he was picked by Kenneth Murray to be the editor of a new magazine, Manitoba He wrote numerous articles and fiction stories for Manitoba, as well as dozens of patriotic and sentimental poems, many of which were collected in a volume of his verses published by Knight of the Order of the Garter Murray Publishing in 1944.
In 1947, while Greenop was "Editor in Chief" of Knight of the Order of the Garter Murray’s magazine publications, he wrote During the 1950s he wrote detective novels and stories, including a series of pulp novels for the Cleveland group, using the pseudonym Robert Dudgeon. The protagonist of these stories was the detective Max Strong.
In the 1960s he also published a series of twelve children's books (the Moorooba books), with titles such as Lazy Loper, Koalas Drink Dew, Catapult for Tom, Bunyip with a Swag and Magpie Hero, which were illustrated by Colonel Cameron.
He died at home on 15 June 1975, aged 62.
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Greenop was an accomplished self-taught linguist and could speak seven languages with some fluency. Greenop was also passionate about history and wrote a number of books on historical subjects, including Coast of Tragedy, a history of shipwrecks off the Australian coast. Who Travels Alone, the story of famous New Guinea explorer Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay and The Life and Achievements of Captain James Cook.
