Robin Ann DaltonAM (néeEakin; 22 December 1920 – 8 July 2022)[1][2] was an Australian literary agent, film producer, and memoirist who lived in London for most of her adult life. She was also a journalist, television performer, and intelligence agent.[3]
Life and career
Robin Ann Eakin was born in 1920 in Sydney, an only child, and grew up in Kings Cross, New South Wales. Her father was a doctor whose clientele included elements of the Sydney underworld as well as more respectable members of society.[4][5] She was frequently in the social pages of Sydney newspapers in her late teens.[6] A 1940 marriage to a barrister named John Spencer[5] did not last more than a few months, as he divorced her on the grounds of adultery.[7]
She then met an Irish doctor named Emmet Dalton, whom she married in 1953. They had two children, Lisa and Seamus,[7][5] but Emmet died suddenly at age 33 during heart surgery. In 1963 she started a life with William Fairchild, who became her third husband in 1992[7] and died in 2000.[4]
She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2013, "for significant service to the film industry as a producer, literary agent and author, and as a mentor to emerging actors and writers".[4][10]
Bibliography
Memoirs
Aunts Up the Cross (1965)
An Incidental Memoir (1998)
One Leg Over (2017)
Fiction
My Relations (written at age 8, published in 2015, aged 94)
References
Notes
^John Nieuwenhuizen; Peter Spearrit (1995). Arnold, John (ed.). Who's who of Australian Writers. Thorpe. p. 159. ISBN9781875589203.
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