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Thomas Joseph Waldron was born in County Wicklow, Ireland, and came to Australia as a young boy in 1915. During the late 1920s and early 1930s, he taught Classics at St Columbia's College, Springwood, and then from ca. 1932 worked in Sydney as a scriptwriter. Using the writing name 'Robert Waldron', he and Joyce Roberts, collaborated on two novels, The Flying Doctor (1934) and Pearl Shell (1934). Waldron and Roberts married in Sydney in 1937, shortly before their departure 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), 'Reluctant Warrior' (1942). Further biographical details remain to be established.