Randolph Stow (28 November 1935 – 29 May 2010) was born in Geraldton but lived in England for many years. He is a former English and Commonwealth Literature lecturer at the Universities of Leeds and Western Australia, Harkness Fellow in the United States, and winner of the Miles Franklin, Grace Leven and Patrick White Awards.
His novels included The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea, To The Islands, Tourmaline, Visitants, The Girl Green as Elderflower and The Suburbs of Hell. He published three collections of poetry, the children’s classic Midnite, and two widely performed music-theatre works devised for Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.