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This book may make him a millionaire 1963

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[Australian Women's Weekly, 21 August 1963, p8 via Trove]

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Sumner Locke Elliott

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.

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Novelist, playwright and actor who won the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 1963 and the Patrick White Literary Award in 1977.

Australian Women's Weekly

Magazine whose features on lifestyle, cooking, fashion and beauty were to shape Australian domestic life for decades. It became a monthly magazine in 1982.

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