Born: 1867-06-17 in Grenfell Goldfields, New South Wales, Australia
Died: 2 September 1922 in Sydney, Australia
Henry Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922) was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period, and is often called Australia's "greatest writer".[1]