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Donald Gordon Payne 3 January — 22 August [ 1 ] was an English author, most famous for his novel, Walkabout. Payne was made a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in As a child he travelled with his parents to New Zealand and Australia.

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After graduating, he worked for publishing firms as an editor, in sales, and as a ghostwriter. In , he had his first book published, Dorset Harbours under his own name. In , he married Barbara Back, with whom he had four sons and one daughter. After the success of this novel, he took up writing full-time. For his next work, Payne borrowed the pseudonym James Vance Marshall from the name of the Australian outback traveller and writer James Vance Marshall — , whose writings provided much of the source material for what would become his most famous work, the novel Walkabout.

Walkabout was originally published as The Children. Payne mainly used the pseudonym Ian Cameron , under which he wrote many exploration and discovery nonfiction and fiction books. Among the nonfiction titles is Riders of the Storm , an official history of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Under the pseudonym Donald Gordon , he wrote four novels.

Donald G. Payne was also a painter and keen gardener, and played tennis and lawn bowls. He lived in Surrey , England. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk.