Author · Australia
Morris West
Died in 1999
Morris West was born on 26 April 1916 in St Kilda, in Melbourne. He entered the Christian Brothers in 1929, taught at Lewisham, in Tasmania and in New South Wales, then left the order in 1940 without having taken his perpetual vows. A cipher officer during the war, he founded a radio production company in Melbourne in 1945, which he left in 1954, then left for Europe in 1956. The author of twenty-seven novels translated into twenty-seven languages, he died on 9 October 1999 north of Sydney.
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- NovelThe Shoes of the FishermanMorris West · 1963Literature