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Morris L. West

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Born: April 25 1916

Died: 0808 10 19991999

Morris Langlo West was born in St Kilda, Melbourne in 1916. At the age of fourteen, he entered the Christian Brothers seminary ‘as a kind of refuge’ from a difficult childhood. He attended the University of Melbourne and worked as a teacher. In 1941 he left the Christian Brothers without taking final vows. In World War II he worked as a code-breaker, and for a time he was private secretary to former prime minister Billy Hughes.

After the war, West became a successful writer and producer of radio serials. In 1955 he left Australia to build an international career as a writer. With his family, he lived in Austria, Italy, England and the USA, including a stint as the Vatican correspondent for the British newspaper, the Daily Mail. He returned to Australia in 1982.

Morris West wrote 30 books and many plays, and several of his novels were adapted for film. His books were published in 28 languages and sold more than 60 million copies worldwide. Each new book he wrote after he became an established writer sold more than one million copies.

West received many awards and accolades over his long writing career, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the W.H. Heinemann Award of the Royal Society of Literature for The Devil's Advocate. In 1978 he was elected a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 1985, and was made an Officer of the Order in 1997.

Morris West died at his desk in 1999.

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Morris L. West

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Books from Morris L. West

The Shoes of the Fisherman

The Clowns of God

Best Sellers from Reader's Digest Condensed Books: To Kill a Mockingbird / The Shoes of the Fisherman / Seven Days in May / To Catch an Angel

Harlequin

Lazarus

The Navigator

The Salamander

Summer of the Red Wolf

Eminence

Devil's Advocate

The Big Story

A View from the Ridge: The Testimony of a Twentieth-Century Christian

Daughter of Silence

La Ultima Confesion

Masterclass

A Segunda Vitória

The World Is Made of Glass

The Lovers

The Concubine

The Ambassador (Morris West Collection)