they raised Lee's three nephews after his sister's death. In his will, Lee asked that his private papers be deposited with Auckland Libraries a year after his death. Amongst his papers are his scrapbooks, which reflect his highly opinionated personality. Photographs and newspaper clippings have been hastily attached with pink elastoplast. There are copious annotations in red ballpoint - warm and generous to family and friends but still nursing grudges, decades later, against old foes. Bill Pearson wrote "People condemned the novels of John A. Lee out of Puritanism but they did not doubt that he was lifting the screen from the indecent truth." In 1989, Mervyn Thompson adapted Children of the Poor into a successful musical play. In 1975 the corner at the intersection of Great North Road and Point Chevalier Road, in the Auckland suburb of Point Chevalier, was named after Lee, as was a new block of pensioner flats nearby. Sporting involvement Lee was also involved with sport. He was the president of the Newton Rangers Rugby League club in 1933 and was heavily involved with Auckland Rugby League being the president for many years until his retirement from the position at the start of 1942. Works Books (first publication) Children of the Poor, 1934. The Hunted, 1936. Civilian into Soldier, 1937. Socialism in New Zealand, 1938. The Yanks are Coming, 1943. Shining with the Shiner, 1944. Simple on a Soapbox, 1963. Shiner Slattery, 1964 Rhetoric at the Red Dawn, 1965. The Lee Way to Public Speaking, 1965 Delinquent Days, 1967. Mussolini’s Millions, 1970 Political Notebooks, 1973. For Mine is the Kingdom, 1975 Soldier, 1976 The Scrim-Lee Papers. 1976 (with CG Scrimgeour & Tony Simson) Roughnecks, Rolling Stones & Rouseabouts, 1977 Early Days in New Zealand, 1977 The John A. Lee Diaries 1936–1940, 1981 The Politician, 1987 (but written in 1936.) Plus numerous pamphlets mainly published during his political days. Lee also produced a political journal, "John A Lee’s Weekly" (which underwent several name changes) from 1940 to 1954. References Further reading Erik Olssen, "W.T. Mills, E.J.B. Allen, J.A. Lee and Socialism in New Zealand," NZ Journal of History, vol. 10, no. 2 (1976), pp. 112–129. Lee, John A.. "I walked again". In Owen, Alwyn (ed.). Snapshots of the Century: 'Spectrum' covers 100 years of New Zealand history. Auckland: Tandem Press. 1998. pp. 27–34. . External links 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand New Zealand Labour Party MPs