Patrick White (1) [1912–1990]

This page covers the author of Voss.

For other authors named Patrick White, see the disambiguation page.

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Patrick White was born on May 28, 1912 in Knightsbridge, London, to Australian parents. He studied modern languages at King's College, Cambridge. During World War II, he served in the Royal Air Force. His first novel, Happy Valley, was published in 1939. His other works include The Tree of Man, Voss, Riders in the Chariot, The Solid Mandala, The Twyborn Affair, and The Hanging Garden. He also wrote several plays including The Season at Sarsaparilla, Night on Bald Mountain, and Signal Driver. They never met with the success his fiction had and have not been produced outside Australia. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. He died on September 30, 1990. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Voss … (more)

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Works by Patrick White

Voss 1,286 copies, 20 reviews

The Tree of Man 737 copies, 15 reviews

Riders in the Chariot 619 copies, 16 reviews

The Vivisector 592 copies, 9 reviews

A Fringe of Leaves 451 copies, 13 reviews

The Eye of the Storm 430 copies, 7 reviews

The Twyborn affair 357 copies, 9 reviews

The Solid Mandala 326 copies, 7 reviews

The Aunt's Story 305 copies, 9 reviews

The Living and the Dead 210 copies, 3 reviews

Flaws in the Glass 209 copies, 3 reviews

The Cockatoos: Shorter Novels and Stories 166 copies, 2 reviews

The Burnt Ones 159 copies, 2 reviews

The hanging garden 108 copies, 6 reviews

Patrick White Letters 95 copies

Memoirs of Many in One: Alex Xenophon Demirjian Gray 94 copies, 2 reviews

Happy Valley 60 copies, 5 reviews

Three Uneasy Pieces 40 copies, 2 reviews

Four plays by Patrick White 27 copies

Patrick White Speaks 25 copies

The night the prowler: a short story and screenplay 13 copies

Collected Plays: Vol 2 11 copies

Collected Short Stories 11 copies

Signal Driver: A Morality Play for the Times 7 copies

Big toys 7 copies

Collected Plays Volume 1 (Australian Dramatists) (Vol 1) 6 copies

Netherwood 5 copies

Los Premios Nobel de literatura (XIV) 4 copies

Patrick White: Selected Writings 4 copies

The season at Sarsaparilla 3 copies

La mano di una donna 2 copies

Night on Bald Mountain 2 copies

El árbol del hombre; Las cacatúas 1 copy

Les Cacatoès 1 copy

Повесть 1 copy

Down At The Dump 1 copy

White Patrick (Patrick Victor Martindale White) 1 copy

Patrick White 1 copy

Opere 1 copy

A cheery soul 1 copy

Five-Twenty 1 copy

Letters from Patrick White to Boswell Brown and Kathleen 1 copy

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Australian Gay and Lesbian Writing: An Anthology (Contributor) 50 copies

Australian Literature: An Anthology of Writing from the Land Down Under (Contributor) 23 copies, 1 review

Australian Love Stories: An Anthology (Contributor) 14 copies

A Century of Australian Short Stories (Contributor) 6 copies

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