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Joyce Roberts Joyce Roberts i(A46243 works by) (a.k.a. Ethel Joyce Roberts )
Also writes as: Robert Waldron ; Spencer Byrne ; Michael Harvey ; Robert Kerwell
Gender: Female
Departed from Australia: 1937
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BiographyHistory

Joyce Roberts was a novelist and playwright. She met Thomas Waldron in Sydney in ca. 1932, and together they collaborated on two novels, The Flying Doctor (1934) and Pearl Shell (1934), which were published under their joint writing name 'Robert Waldron'. Roberts and Waldron married in Sydney in 1937, shortly before departing for the United States. They subsequently lived in New York, where they are known to have collaborated on a number of playscripts - 'We Mortals' (1938), 'Speckled Fruit' (1938), 'In the Red' (1938), 'Thomas Jefferson' (1939), 'Sir Peter Expects' (1940) and 'Reluctant Warrior' (1942). Further biographical details remain to be established.

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Notes

  • The National Library of Australia holds an unpublished manuscript by Roberts and Waldron, titled 'Pioneer'. The State Library of New South Wales also holds their unpublished manuscript 'Summer Blooming'.

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See Also
Thomas Joseph Waldron
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