Patrick White

Patrick White (May 28, 1912 - 1990) was a novelist and the first Australian winner of the Nobel Prize in literature. White was born in London while his parents were on an extended European tour. He was educated largely in England (B.A., King's College, Cambridge, 1935) and served in the R.A.F. during World War II. He returned to Australia after the war and began to write seriously.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1974.

Novels

• The Living and the Dead[?] (1941)
• The Aunt's Story[?] (1948)
• The Tree of Man[?] (1955)
• Voss (1957)
• Riders in the Chariot[?] (1961)
• The Solid Mandala[?], 1966)
• The Vivisector[?] (1970)
• The Eye of the Storm[?] (1973)
• A Fringe of Leaves[?] (1976)
• The Twyborn Affair[?] (1979)
• Memoirs of Many in One[?] (1986) - despite the title, a novel

Other writings

• Flaws in the Glass[?] (1981) - a memoir