{"name":"Died","target":"","target_text":"Manhattan, New York City, United States","date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>24 Jun 1991<\/span>"},"date_start":"1991-06-24","date_end":"1991-06-24"}
{"name":"Student","target":"Neutral Bay Public School","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'><\/span>"},"date_start":null,"date_end":null}
{"name":"Winner","target":"Miles Franklin Literary Award","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>1963<\/span>"},"date_start":"1963-01-01","date_end":"1963-01-01"}
{"name":"Winner","target":"Patrick White Literary Award","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>1977<\/span>"},"date_start":"1977-01-01","date_end":"1977-01-01"}
{"name":"Writer","target":"Fairyland: A Novel","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>1990<\/span>"},"date_start":"1990-01-01","date_end":"1990-01-01"}
Sumner Locke Elliott, actor, playwright and novelist, lived in Sydney until 1948 and thereafter in the United States. In the 1960s after a successful career as a playwright he decided to reinvent himself as a novelist and of his ten novels five are based on his life in Sydney between the 1920s and 1940s. He won the Miles Franklin Award in 1963 and the Patrick White Award in 1977.
