Early Life
He was educated at Brisbane Grammar School and the University of Queensland, from which he graduated with first class honours in Greek and Latin. In the 1920s he contributed stories and poems to the Bulletin, as well as editing the literary magazines Vision (with his father Norman Lindsay) and London Aphrodite. He founded, with P. R. Stephensen and John Kirtley, the Fanfrolico Press for fine publishing, initially in North Sydney. Jack Lindsay left Australia in 1926, never to return. When the University of Queensland Press tried to persuade him to come to Australia for the launch of The Blood Vote in 1985, he declined.
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