Lucy Walker

Dorothy Lucie Sanders (4 May 1907 – 17 December 1987), better known under the pseudonym Lucy Walker, was a prolific and successful Australian romance novelist.

Personal life Dorothy Lucie McClemans was born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, on 4 May 1907, the second of five daughters. After her parents divorced in 1928, her mother supported the family as a nurse and then as a Justice of the Peace. over a thirty-year career. Popular in the United States and England, more than a million copies of her books were sold. Walker's romance novels were distinguished by their Outback settings.

Walker was an active member of the Australian Society of Authors and Fellowship of Australian Authors, and a member of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists, London.

In an interview, Walker expressed her regret that the popularity of her romance novels detracted from her other novels and kept her from pursuing more serious writing. She said, "I am not unproud of Lucy Walker but I'll never really be sure of what I could have done without her...I used to think that if I had been given the chance I could have written The Great Australian Novel."

Dorothy Lucie Sanders Faeries on the Doorstep, 1948 Six for Heaven, 1952 Monday in Summer, 1954 Shining River, 1954 Waterfall, 1956 Ribbons in Her Hair, 1957 Pepper Tree Bay, 1959

Lucy Walker The One Who Kisses, 1954 Sweet and Faraway, 1955 Come Home, Dear, 1956 Heaven is Here, 1957 Master of Ransome, 1958 The Orchard Hill, 1958 Kingdom of the Heart, 1959 The Stranger from the North, 1959 Love in a Cloud, 1960 The Loving Heart, 1960 The Moonshiner, 1961 Wife to Order, 1961 The Distant Hills, 1962 Down in the Forest, 1962 The Call of the Pines, 1963 Follow Your Star, 1963 A Man Called Masters, 1963 The Man from Outback, 1964 The Ranger in the Hills, 1965 The Other Girl, 1965 The River is Down, 1966 Reaching for the Stars, 1966 The Gone-Away Man, 1968 Home at Sundown, 1968 Joyday for Jodi, 1971 The Mountain That Went to the Sea, 1971 Girl Alone, 1973 The Runaway Girl, 1975 Gamma's Girl, 1977

Shelley Dean South Sea Island, 1966 Island in the South, 1967