Jack Harvey

Jack Harvey was born in Australia in 1921. During the Second World War he worked as a merchant seaman and was aboard an oil tanker which was torpedoed by the Japanese – thus inspiring the events depicted in Salt in Our Wounds. The novel was a bestseller, which was followed by a prequel Beyond the River’s Mouth in 1956. Harvey subsequently stepped out of the public eye and there is little known about his later life. He died 2013.