Maxwell Edgar "Max" Fatchen, AM (3 August 1920 – 14 October 2012) was an Australian journalist and children's writer.Fatchen spent his childhood on an Adelaide Plains farm at Angle Vale. He learned to drive a team of Clydesdale horses and did part of his High School studies at home, driving his horse and buggy in once a week to Gawler High School to get his papers corrected.