Robert Leeson Jack Lindsay (October 20, 1900 - 1990) was an Australian-born writer, who from 1926 lived in the United Kingdom, initially in Essex. He was born in Melbourne, and was son of Norman Lindsay.

He was educated at the University of Queensland. In the 1920s he edited the literary magazines Vision and London Aphrodite. He founded, with P. R. Stephensen and John Kirtley, the Fanfrolico Press for fine publishing, initially in North Sydney. As well as a writer of prose he was also a published poet.

Second front is a book that starts with poems about recruits and works his way into later aspects of the war. The fly leaf says he deals with the "efforts of the soldier to find his stability in the new world into which he had been forced." One poem starts "All day the chatter of Bren guns filled the fells".

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In the 1930s the Fanfrolico Press ceased as a business. Lindsay moved to the left politically, writing for Left Review and joining the Communist Party of Great Britain at the end of the decade, becoming an activist. He started writing novels while living in Cornwall. His works were published in the USSR under the name Richard Preston. He collaborated, amongst others, with Edgell Rickword.

During World War II, he served in the British Army initially in the Royal Signal Corps. From 1943 he worked for the War Office on theatrical scripts. After the war he lived in Castle Hedingham.