Editor and Publisher. Before World War II, Frank Eyre worked as a freelance author and critic and wrote The Naid and Other Poems (Basil Blackwell, 1935) as well as other creative, edited and non-fiction works. After the war Eyre moved into publishing and was appointed managing editor of the children's book department for Oxford University Press in London. In 1949 he arrived in Melbourne to be the editorial manager and two years later General Manager for Oxford University Press in Australia. He remained at Oxford until his retirement in 1975. He continued to write critical works while in Australia including Twentieth Century Children's Books (1952, revised 1973) for the British Council and Oxford in Australia, 1890-1979 (Oxford University Press, 1978.) He died on his yacht watching the ships of the First Fleet reenactment on Port Phillip Bay.
Source: Obituary : Frank Eyre, Publisher and Author, 1910-1988 by John D. Adams (Reading Time vol. 32 no. 2, 1988 pp. 4-5)
