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Australian novelist and playwright

Kathleen Kylie Tennant AO ('/k//aɪ//l//i/; 12 March 1912 – 28 February 1988) was an Australian novelist, playwright, short story writer, critic, biographer, and historian.

Tennant was born in Manly, New South Wales; she was educated at Brighton College in Manly and Sydney University, though she left without graduating. She was a publicity officer for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, as well as working as a journalist, union organiser, reviewer (for The Sydney Morning Herald), a publisher's literary adviser and editor, and a member of the Commonwealth Literary Fund advisory board. She married L. C. Rodd in 1933; they had two children (a daughter, Benison, in 1946 and a son, John Laurence, in 1951). Her work was known for its well researched, realistic, yet positive portrayals of the lives of the underprivileged in Australia. In a video interview filmed in 1986, three years before her death, for the Australia Council's Archival Film Series, Tennant told how she lived as the people she wrote about, travelling as an unemployed itinerant worker during the Depression years, living in Aboriginal communities and spending a short time in prison for research. Two of Tennant's novels, Battlers and Ride on Stranger, set in the 1930s, have been made into television mini series. "Kylie's Hut", the author's retreat in Crowdy Bay, was destroyed during the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season.

Tiburon (1935. Sydney: Endeavour Press) — first published in serial form in The Bulletin
Foveaux (1939. London: Gollancz; 1946. Sydney: Sirius)
The Battlers (1941. London: Gollancz; New York: Macmillan; 1945. Sydney: Sirius)
Time Enough Later (c.1942. New York: Macmillan; 1945. London: Macmillan). A humorous coming of age story about a young woman and her relationship with an artistic older man. Ride on Stranger (1943. New York: Macmillan; London: Gollancz; Sydney: Angus & Robertson)
Lost Haven (1946. NY: Macmillan; Melbourne: Macmillan; London: Macmillan)
The Joyful Condemned (1953. London: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press)
The Honey Flow (1956. London: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press)
Tell Morning This (1967. Sydney: Angus & Robertson) — complete version of The Joyful Condemned
The Man on the Headland (1971. Sydney: Angus & Robertson)
Tantavallon (1983. Melbourne: Macmillan)

Ma Jones and Little White Cannibals (1967. London)

Long John Silver (1954. Sydney: Associated General Publications) — adapted from the screenplay by Martin Rackin
All the Proud Tribesmen (1959. London: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press; 1960. Melbourne: Macmillan) — illustrated by Clem Seale. Children's Book Award (1960)
Come and See: social studies for Third Grade (1960. Melbourne: Macmillan)
We Find the Way: social studies for Fourth Grade (1960. Melbourne: Macmillan)
Trail Blazers of the Air (1965. Melbourne: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press) — illustrated by Roderick Shaw

Australia: Her Story (1953. London: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press)
Speak You So Gently: Lives among the Australian Aborigines (1959. London: Gollancz) — about the Rev Alf Clint
Evatt: Politics and justice (1970. Sydney: Angus & Robertson)
The Missing Heir (1986. Melbourne: Macmillan) — her autobiography

The Development of the Australian Novel (1958. Canberra: CLF)
(with L. C. Rodd) The Australian Essay (1968. Melbourne: Cheshire)