Conrad H. (Conrad Harvey) Sayce

Born in Hereford, England, in 1888, Conrad Harvey Sayce later moved to Australia, where he built a career as an architect as well as a writer. He worked in Melbourne with Rodney Alsop, and sources also describe him as writing poetry, short stories, and adventure novels shaped by his experience of outback life and landscape.

His books include Golden Buckles, The Valley of a Thousand Deaths, In the Musgrave Ranges, The Golden Valley, The Splendid Savage, and Comboman. Some records note that he also wrote under the name Jim Bushman, a fitting pen name for a novelist so closely associated with rugged Australian settings.

There is some disagreement in available sources about his death date: literary and bibliography records connected with Australian popular fiction list 1935, while other reference sources give a later date. Because of that conflict, it is safest to say that he was born in 1888 and was active as an Australian adventure writer in the early decades of the twentieth century.