Kathleen Carroll


Kathleen Carroll was an Australian writer. She was born in Rockhampton, grew up in Brisbane and moved to Sydney in 1936 to work in an advertising film. During the war she worked in an aircraft factory. She became one of the leading writers of radio serials in Australia.
Theatre historian Leslie Rees praised her "faith in and understanding of working-class people".
Carroll won the 1940 Westralian Drama Festival Award for her play, Saturday.
She wrote many scripts for radio serials produced by Grace Gibson.

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