Patrick White (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: David Marr
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1912-1990
- Setting: Australia and England
- Principal Characters: Patrick White, Ruth Withycombe White, Manoly Lascaris, Lizzie Clark, Ben Huebsch
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Literature, England or English people, Nobel Prizes, Drama or dramatists, Theater, Letters, Wealth, Australia or Australians
- Locales: England, Australia
David Marr’s Patrick White: A Life, written with the encouragement and cooperation of his subject, is the definitive biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Australian man of letters. Using hitherto unavailable letters, some twenty-five hundred of them, Marr depicts White’s life, demonstrating how events, characters, and geography pervade and illuminate the fiction, poetry, and drama of Australia’s most critically acclaimed author. Noting that White believed that “what we inherit can never be entirely denied,” Marr explores the backgrounds of Victor (Dick) White and Ruth...
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