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Kylie Tennat, at work,1966

National Archives of Australia, A1200:L59384

Kathleen (Kylie) Tennant, also known as Kylie Rodd (1912-1988) author

Birth: 12 March 1912 at Manly, New South Wales, daughter of native-born parents Thomas Walter Tennant (1888-1983), clerk later company executive, and Kathleen Alice, née Tolhurst (1892-1960). Marriage: 21 November 1932 with Anglican rites at Christ Church, Coonabarabran, to Lewis Charles Rodd (1905-1979), a school-teacher, born at Paddington, Sydney. They had one daughter and one son. Death 28 February 1988 at Chatswood, Sydney. 

• Educated at Brighton College, Manly, NSW.
• Literary critic for the Sydney Morning Herald in 1953-1976. Member, Advisory Board, Commonwealth Literary Fund 1961-72. Life patron, Fellowship of Australian Writers.
• Won the S.H. Prior Memorial Prize, the Bulletin, for Tiburon 1935 and The Battlers 1940; gold medal, Australian Literature Society 1941 for The Battlers; first prize, Commonwealth Jubilee Stage Play Competition 1952 for Tether a Dragon; Children's Book Award 1960 for All the Proud Tribesmen.
• Author of Tiburon (1935), Foveaux (1939); The Battlers (1940); Time Enough Later (1943); Ride On Stranger (1943); Lost Haven (1946); Tether a Dragon (??); The Joyful Condemned (1953); Australia: Her Story (1953); The Honey Flow (1956); Speak You So Gently (1959); All the Proud Tribesmen (1960); Trail Blazers of the Air (1965); Ma Jones and the Little White Cannibals (1967); Tell Morning This (1967); The Australian Essay (1968; co-author with L C Rodd); Summer's Tales (editor); Great Stories of Australia (editor); Evatt: Politics and Justice (1970); The Man on the Headland (1971, editor).
• Cause of death: cancer. 

Sources
Who’s Who in Australian Womwn, 1982.