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Author Description Russell Reading Braddon was an Australian writer of novels, biographies and TV scripts. His chronicle of his four years as a prisoner of war, <i>The Naked Island</i>, sold more than a million copies. <br /><br />Braddon was born in Sydney, Australia, the son of a barrister. He served in the Malayan campaign during World War II. He was held as a prisoner of war by the Japanese in Pudu and Changi prisons and on the Thailand-Burma Railway between 1942 and 1945. <br /><br />In 1949, Braddon moved to England. He described his writing career as "beginning by chance". <i>The Naked Island</i>, published in 1952, was one of the first accounts of a Japanese prisoner of war's experience. <br /><br />Braddon went on to produce a wide range of works, including novels, biographies, histories, TV scripts and newspaper articles. He was also a broadcaster on radio and television. <br /><br /><i>Proud Australian Boy: A Biography of Russell Braddon</i> by Nigel Starck was published in Australia in 2011.

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