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'James Francis Dwyer (1874-1952), author, was born on 22 April 1874 at Camden Park, New South Wales, fifth son of Michael Dwyer, farm labourer, and his wife Margaret, née Mahoney, both from Cork, Ireland. The family moved a few miles to Menangle in 1883 and next year to Campbelltown. James was educated in local public schools until, at 14, he was sent to relatives in Sydney, where he worked as a publisher's clerk. He became a letter-carrier at Rockdale in May 1892, and despite a brief meeting with Robert Louis Stevenson which turned his thoughts towards writing, he remained in suburban post offices, eventually becoming a postal assistant from 1895 at the Oxford Street branch.' (Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography online)