AustLit logo
Ingram Morgan Ingram Morgan i(A43447 works by) (a.k.a. Captain Ingram Morgan)
Writing name for: Ronald Campbell
Gender: Male
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • This 'biography' of 'Captain Ingram Morgan' appeared in the September 1937 issue of the Australian Journal: ' ...I was born in Charters Towers, Queensland...Parents moved to Sydney. I... became an apprentice in a line of British cargo steamers. No adventures out of the ordinary, but a lot of jolly hard work. Soon found I didn't like the sea as much as I thought I would. One thing about it; though; it gave me plenty of time for reading. I read everything I could lay my hands on, from out-of-date newspapers to the Classics. When I had nothing to read I nearly went mad, like a dope addict who can't get his favourite drug. Read my way around the world a few times...Then I started to write. Kicked off with a long novel - 200,000 words of it, all written in pencil, of course and on both sides fo the paper. I set it off to a publisher in New York....I waited three years expecting to hear from him any day, but nothing happened, so I kept right on being a sailor. Got my master's ticket. Became that mighty potentate, the captain of a ship. Then things got bad in the shipping line, and so I left the sea. By this time I'd got a whole bundle of short stories in my dunnage. I left them in a Sydney newspaper office and went off with a party of friends gold prospecting in Central Australia...I went back to Sydney, sad, wise and thirsty. I called at the newspaper office. They'd printed a couple of my stories...they offered me a job...Finally I decided that if I were going to make the name Morgan immortal it was time to do something about it. So I left for England were I had a little success and hope for more. My stories seem to o down well with Americans, too, and I hope they'll find equal favour in my native country. (Source: The Australian Journal, 'In Passing', 1937; v73 no. 858; pp 1284-1285)
  • A photographic portrait of the purported 'Captain Ingram Morgan' appears in the September 1937 issue of the Australian Journal, p 1285.
Last amended 21 Oct 2009 11:21:59
Other mentions of "" in AustLit:
    X