Patrick White
![White, {{c.|1940s}}](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Patrick_White_writer.jpg)
Born in London to affluent Australian parents, White spent his childhood in Sydney and on his family's rural properties. He was sent to an English public school at age 13 and went on to read modern languages at Cambridge. On his graduation in 1935, he embarked on a literary career. His first published novel, ''Happy Valley'' (1939), was awarded the Gold Medal of the Australian Literature Society. In World War Two, he served as an intelligence officer in the Royal Air Force. While stationed in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1941, he met Manoly Lascaris who was to become his life companion and, as White later wrote, "the central mandala in my life's hitherto messy design."
White returned to Australia in 1948 where he bought a small farm on the outskirts of Sydney. There he wrote the two novels, ''The Tree of Man'' (1955) and ''Voss'' (1957), which brought him critical acclaim in the United States and the United Kingdom. In the 1960s, he wrote the novels ''Riders in the Chariot'' (1961) and ''The Solid Mandala'' (1966) and a series of plays including ''The Season at Sarsaparilla'' and ''A'' ''Cheery Soul'' which had a major impact on Australian theatre.
White and Lascaris moved to Sydney's Centennial Park in 1964. From the late 1960s, White became increasingly involved in public affairs, opposing the Vietnam war and supporting Aboriginal self-determination, nuclear disarmament and various environmental causes. His later work includes the novels ''The Eye of the Storm'' (1973) and ''The Twyborn Affair'' (1979) and the memoir ''Flaws in the Glass'' (1981)''.'' Provided by Wikipedia
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