12 Facts About Keith Dunstan

John Keith Dunstan, known as Keith Dunstan, was an Australian journalist and author.

Keith Dunstan was a prolific writer and the author of more than 35 books.

Keith Dunstan attended Melbourne Grammar School and Geelong Grammar School and was a flight lieutenant in the Royal Australian Air Force from 1943 to 1946, stationed at Labuan in the Pacific.

In 1946, Keith Dunstan joined The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, publishers of The Sun News-Pictorial and The Herald.

Keith Dunstan returned to Melbourne and, from 1958 to 1978, contributed a daily column, "A Place in the Sun" for The Sun News-Pictorial, the city's largest circulating daily newspaper.

Keith Dunstan was the United States West Coast Correspondent for The Herald and Weekly Times.

Keith Dunstan published a quartet of books on Australian character: Wowsers, Knockers, Sports, and Ratbags, and many works of history on popular subjects ranging from wine, to sport, to retailing, and including an unfashionably critical study of the Australian outlaw Ned Kelly, Saint Ned.

Keith Dunstan's pioneering works of Australian sports history included The Paddock That Grew on the Melbourne Cricket Ground, which has now seen several editions and updates.

Keith Dunstan wrote an autobiography, No Brains at All.

Keith Dunstan was a bicycle touring enthusiast who with his wife Marie cycled across the United States in the 1970s and through China in the 1980s.

On 11 October 2013, Keith Dunstan was posthumously inducted into the Melbourne Press Club's Victorian Media Hall of Fame.

Keith Dunstan was told of his forthcoming induction before his death.