Career
In the 1987 recording John Blight, he describes his Cornish background and its influence on his style. Born in Unley, South Australia, in 1913, Blight was educated at Brisbane State High School. During the Great Depression in Australia he tramped the Queensland coast looking for work.
In 1939 he became an accountant in Bundaberg, Queensland, and after World World War II a part-owner of timber mills in the Gympie region.
He took up full-time writing in 1973. He died in 1995.
