Marcie Muir

(1919- ), born Perth, has worked for many years on Australian children's literature. She has published volume I (1774-1972) of Australian Children's Books: A Bibliography (1992), an expanded and updated version of her earlier two-volume work, 1970 and 1976; Kerry White compiled volume II (1973-88) of the Bibliography. Muir has also edited a collection of tales for children, Strike-a-Light the Bushranger (1972) and an anthology of poetry and prose for children, Under the Pepper Trees (1987); written an account of Charlotte Barton, Australia's first children's author (1980); and a History of Australian Children's Book Illustration (1982), which supersedes her earlier Australian Children's Book Illustrators (1977), and which records the image of Australia presented to children from the early romanticised misconceptions of overseas publishers to the realism of such contemporary artists as Dick Roughsey. She has also published an edition of C. Langloh Parker's My Bush Book (1982), which includes a discussion of Mrs Parker's life and her literary contribution; and Anthony Trollope in Australia (1949); with Robert Holden she has written an illustrated account of the life and work of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (1985). In 1984 Muir won the inaugural Nan Chauncy Award and in 1988 the Redmond Barry Award and in 1978 shared with her husband, Harry Muir, an Adelaide bookshop proprietor and founder of the Wakefield Press, the National Book Council's Bookman of the Year Award.

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