Jim Anderson

Jim Anderson (born 1937) is a British-Australian editor and novelist. He edited OZ Magazine and later wrote the novels Billarooby and Chipman's African Adventure (2015).

Early life and education Anderson was born in Haverhill, Suffolk, but his family emigrated to Australia when he was one year old. This was due to his father having a dispute with his own father, with whom he never reconciled. They moved to Orange, New South Wales, and then to Warwick, a small town (now place name) near Cowra on the Lachlan River, where his family had a vegetable farm. The farm became unworkable in the 1940s, due to the river drying up in a prolonged drought, and at this time he helped his father trapping rabbits for food. In Sydney, he studied law at the University of Sydney, while also working at the Attorney General's Department.

Career Anderson joined OZ in 1969. Anderson also edited Neville's 1995 memoir Hippie, Hippie Shake. Later that same year (2011), Lampoon was exhibited at South Hill Gallery, Goulburn.

Anderson's second novel, Chipman's African Adventure, was published in March 2015. Jim Anderson spoke as a panelist at the 2016 Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival on "Truth and Authenticity in Fiction" and "The Creative Process: How Hard is it to Write?" In June 2016, Billarooby, Anderson's first novel was re-published by Valentine Press.