Alec Derwent Hope

Alec Derwent Hope was born on 21 July 1907 at Cooma, in New South Wales, the son of a Presbyterian minister. A graduate of the University of Sydney, he went on to study at Oxford, taught at Sydney Teachers' College, then at the University of Melbourne, and in 1951 became the first professor of English at Canberra University College, later merged into the Australian National University, where he taught until 1968. His reviews, feared in the forties and fifties, wounded Patrick White among others. He died in Canberra on 13 July 2000.

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