Page was educated at Teignmouth, South Devon, then trained as a radio operator and went to sea at sixteen. He served in all types of ships during thirteen years at sea but settled in Adelaide after a visit to Australia. Page became a copywriter in an Adelaide advertising agency and eventually its manager. He was the publishing manager of Rigby (1967-1982). Page has written about cricket, South Australian history and the Murray River as well as The Flying Doctor Story, 1928-78 (1977). He has also written radio and television scripts for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and co-authored with Robert Ingpen (q.v.) the Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were (1985), republished as Out of This World : The Complete Book of Fantasy (1989). He also wrote the text for a retrospective entitled Robert Ingpen (1980).
(Source: The Oxford Companion to Australian Children's Literature ed. Stella Lees and Pam Macintyre (1993))
