Alfred George Stephens

Alfred George Stephens (born Aug. 28, 1865, Toowoomba, Queens., Australia—died April 15, 1933, Sydney, N.S.W.) was an Australian literary critic and journalist whose writings in newspapers and periodicals set standards for Australian literature. He is considered Australia’s pioneer man of letters. As a youth Stephens was apprenticed to a Sydney printer, and he later became a journalist. Joining the staff of Boomerang, a radical Brisbane weekly, Stephens wrote a column that surveyed American and British...