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Patrick White

Patrick WhiteAKA Patrick Victor Martindale White

Born: 28-May-1912
Birthplace: London, England
Died: 30-Sep-1990
Location of death: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Cause of death: Asthma complications

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Gay
Occupation: Novelist, Playwright

Nationality: Australia
Executive summary: Riders in the Chariot

Military service: Royal Air Force (WWII)

Boyfriend: Ronald Waterall (likely, as a student)
Boyfriend: Manoly Lascaris (life partner)

    High School: Cheltenham College, England
    University: BA, King's College, Cambridge University (1935)

    Nobel Prize for Literature 1973
    Australian of the Year 1973

Is the subject of books:
Patrick White, 1983, BY: John A. Weigel
Patrick White, 1991, BY: David Marr

Author of books:
The Ploughman and Other Poems (1935, poetry)
Happy Valley (1939, novel)
The Aunt's Story (1948, novel)
The Tree of Man (1955, novel)
Voss (1957, novel)
Riders in the Chariot (1961, novel)
The Solid Mandala (1966, novel)
The Twyborn Affair (1979, novel)
Flaws in the Glass: A Self-Portrait (1981, memoir)
Memoirs of Many in One (1986, novel)

Wrote plays:
The Season at Sarsaparilla (1962)
Night on Bald Mountain (1964)
Signal Driver (1982)



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