After joining the 'Australian Journal' as a crime writer in the early 1920s, Ronald Campbell took on the responsibility of producing a story each month under the pseudonym Rex Grayson. He was appointed editor of the journal in 1926 and continued in that role until 1954 when the magazine was sold by its long-time owners Massina & Company. Campbell was married to editor, literary agent and bookshop owner, Louise Campbell, and is the father of writer, Catherine Bateson.

Journalist and novelist.

John Henry Macartney Abbott was born in Haydonton, NSW, in 1894. He was educated at the King's School, Parramatta and at the University of Sydney. He worked as a jackeroo, served in the Boer War and then became a journalist in London. He returned to Australia in about 1909 and published prolifically in journals such as the Bulletin and Lone Hand. In 1926 he married Katherina Wallace. In 1942 he was awarded a Commonwealth Literary Fund fellowship. His novels had a wide readership. Abbott died in 1953.

Vance Palmer was a Miles Franklin award winning Australian author and playwright, and the husband of journalist Nettie Palmer. He wrote under the pseudonym Rann Daly.