John Hepworth (4 September 1921 – 24 January 1995) was an Australian author and journalist, best known for his "Outsight" column in Nation Review magazine, which he edited for several years. Career He was born in Pinjarra, Western Australia, and moved to Perth as a young boy. He attended Perth Modern School. With the outbreak of World War II, he enlisted and served in South-west Asia, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and New Guinea. He wrote the regular "Outsight" column for Nation Review and was its editor for several years, then contributed to Toorak Times, the eccentric weekly newspaper published by Jack Pacholli (1929-2004). He also worked for the ABC, earning the attention of ASIO as a Communist sympathiser. He died from lung cancer. Family He had a longterm relationship with writer Oriel Gray, with whom he had two sons, Peter and Nicholas. Peter Hepworth (1948 – 2011) had a successful career as a television screenwriter, including writing episodes for such serials as The Sullivans, The Flying Doctors, The Henderson Kids and Blue Heelers. Bibliography The Long Green Shore Pan Macmillan Australia (1995) written for a Sydney Morning Herald literary contest Lurie, Morris (ed) John Hepworth ... His Book (a collection of his "Outsight" articles, illustrated by Michael Leunig) Angus and Robertson 1978 The Last of the Rainbow Yackandandah Playscripts (1963) The Multitude of Tigers (1990) (with John Hindle) Boozing Out in Melbourne Town (1980) Around the Bend (an account of a 1983 rafting trip he undertook with Hindle and Patrick Amer down the River Murray and filmed by an ABC camera crew) Little Australian Library Dynamo House (with Michael Leunig) The Almanac of Unspeakable Colonial Acts Dynamo House (1986) For children: (with Bob Ellis) Top Kid Puffin (1985) based on Ellis's television drama (with Bob Ellis) The Paper Boy Puffin (1985) based on Ellis's television drama (with Steve Spears) The Big Wish Puffin (1990) based on Spears' television drama for Australian Children's Television Foundation Sources Wilde, William; H. Hooton, Joy and Andrews, Barry The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature Oxford University Press 1985 References Australian newspaper editors People educated at Perth Modern School Deaths from lung cancer 1921 births 1995 deaths 20th-century Australian journalists Writers from Perth, Western Australia Australian military personnel of World War II Military personnel from Western Australia