'Carolyn Landon graduated with a BA in Literature and Philosophy from Beloit College in Wisconsin. She came to Australia in 1968 as a traveller, hitchhiking by a small areoplane throughout the far north, stopping five weeks at Elcho Island Mission in Arnhem Land. She became English coordinator at a private school in Ballarat, but in 1971 joined the Victorian state education system where she taught Senior Literature, English and Journalism.'
Source: Jackson's Tracks (1999).