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Patrick White, recipient of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Knightsbridge, London. His parents, Victor White and Ruth Withycombe, were Australian, and they returned to Australia soon after his birth. He was educated at Cheltenham College and Cambridge University. He worked briefly as a jackaroo and also lived as a farmer for eighteen years in a suburb of Sydney.
White's first novel, HAPPY VALLEY, was published when he was 27. He gained international recognition in 1957 with the novel VOSS. In 1980 he published his autobiography, FLAWS IN THE GLASS. He was the first Australian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Patrick White died in Sydney, Australia in 1990.
CHRONOLOGY
1912 He was born in Knightsbridge, London. (May 28); His family returned to Australia. (November)
1925 He was sent to Cheltenham College.
1935 He received his B.A. from Cambridge University.
1939 HAPPY VALLEY
1940 He served as an air force intelligence officer.
1941 THE LIVING AND THE DEAD
1945 He returned to Australia.
1948 THE AUNT'S STORY
1955 THE TREE OF MAN
1957 VOSS
1961 RIDERS I NTHE CHARIOT
1962 THE SEASON AT SARSAPARILLA
1964 THE BURNT ONES
1966 THE SOLID MANDALA
1970 THE VIVISECTOR
1973 THE EYE OF THE STORM
1974 THE COCTATTOS
1976 A FRINGE OF LEAVES
1977 BIG TOYS
1978 THE GOD IN THE RAFTERS; STATEIONS
1979 THE TWYBORN AFFAIR
1981 FLAWS INTHE GLASS
1982 SIGNAL DRIVER; SEVENTEEN ODES
1983 NETHERWOOD
1986 MEMOIRS OF MANY IN ONE
1987 THREE UNEASY PIECES
1990 He died in Sydney, Australia. (September 30)
1996 PATRICK WHITE: LETTERS
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