| Phyllis Piddington | |
| Birth Name: | Phyllis Lilian Aird |
| Other Names: | Grace Veritas |
| Birth Date: | 9 October 1910 |
| Birth Place: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Death Place: | Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
Phyllis Piddington (9 October 1910 – 8 July 2001) was an Australian writer. The eldest of daughter of Melbourne optician William James and Lilian Aird, she was one of the first female graduates from the University of Melbourne with an MA degree. After her marriage in 1938 she went to Britain to study and teach, spending the war in Aberystwyth.[1] She moved back to Australia in 1946, lecturing in speech and drama for 15 years. After her retirement in 1969 she published Southern Rainbow a book set in the late 1830s of South Australia.[1] [2] It was adapted as an anime television series Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow as part of World Masterpiece Theater series by Nippon Animation.[3]