Freelance writer Eugene Lumbers wrote/adapted a number of works for ABC children's radio and television, including Who's Robbing This Coach? and the science fiction series Andra (from the novel by Louise Lawrence). He contributed to the series Diamonds of Death and Traditional Folk Tales from Around the World. His A Taste for Blue Ribbons and his two Smocker books were based on popular ABC radio programmes.
He worked as a radio script-writer for Adelaide radio station 3AD in the 1940s, but left them c.1950 to freelance. During the same period, he also contributed non-fiction articles to Adelaide newspapers.
He retired in Mollymook, and was killed in an accident.