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Morris West

January 01, 1970

Morris Langlo West AO (26 April 1916 – 9 October 1999) was an Australian novelist and playwright, best known for his novels The Devil's Advocate (1959), The Shoes of the Fisherman (1963) and The Clowns of God (1981). His books were published in 27 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.[1]

Morris West

AO
Morris West
BornMorris Langlo West
(1916-04-26)26 April 1916
St Kilda, Victoria, Australia
Died9 October 1999(1999-10-09) (aged 83)
Clareville, New South Wales, Australia
Pen nameMichael East, Julian Morris
OccupationWriter
NationalityAustralian
Period20th century
GenreLiterary fiction
Notable worksThe Shoes of the Fisherman, The Devil's Advocate
Notable awardsJames Tait Black Memorial prize 1959

West's works were often focused on international politics and the role of the Roman Catholic Church in international affairs. In The Shoes of the Fisherman he described the election and career of a Slav as Pope, 15 years before the historic election of Karol Wojtyła as Pope John Paul II. The sequel, The Clowns of God, described a successor Pope who resigned the papacy to live in seclusion, 32 years before the abdication of Pope Benedict XVI in 2013.

Early life edit

West was born in St Kilda, Victoria, the son of a commercial salesman. Due to the large size of his family, he was sent to live with his grandparents. He attended the Christian Brothers College, St Kilda where he was awarded the prize of Dux by Archbishop Daniel Mannix in 1929.

At the age of 14, West entered the Congregation of Christian Brothers community at St Patricks in Strathfield, Sydney, "as a kind of refuge" from a difficult childhood.[2]

In 1934 he began teaching at St Thomas's Primary School, Lewisham, living in that community until 1936. He taught at schools in Tasmania and New South Wales between 1937 and 1939, while also studying at the University of Tasmania.

He left the Christian Brothers order in 1940. He worked as a salesman and a teacher.

War service edit

In April 1941, West enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force. He was commissioned as a lieutenant and worked as a cipher officer, being eventually posted to Gladesville, New South Wales, in 1944. He was seconded from the RAAF to work for Billy Hughes, former Australian prime minister, for a time.

His first published novel, Moon in My Pocket, came out in 1945 using the pseudonym "Julian Morris". He wrote it while in the air force. It was published by the Australasian Publishing Company, a branch of Harrap's Publishing Company in London, and sold more than 10,000 copies.[3][4]

Radio producer edit

West worked as publicity manager at Melbourne radio station 3DB. He moved into radio drama, setting up his own radio production company ARP, which operated from 1945 to 1954. For the next 10 years he focused on writing, directing and producing radio plays and serials.

His radio plays included The Mask of Marius Melville (1945), The Curtain Rises (1946),[5] The Affairs of Harlequin (1951), The Prince of Peace (c. 1951), When a Girl Marries (1952),[6] The Enchanted Island (1952), Trumpets in the Dawn (c. 1953–54) and Genesis in Juddsville (c. 1955–56).

The workload of his job and a crisis in his marital relations led to West having a nervous breakdown. He ultimately sold his company to focus on writing full-time.[7]

Novelist edit

Early works edit

West's first novel published under his own name was Gallows on the Sand (1955), written in seven days. He followed it with Kundu (1956), a New Guinea adventure written in three weeks.[7] He also wrote a play, The Illusionists (1955).

West moved to Europe with his family. His third novel was The Big Story (1957), which was later filmed as The Crooked Road (1965).

A trip to Naples led to meeting Father Borrelli who worked with the street boys of Naples. This resulted in the non-fiction book Children of the Sun (1957) which was West's first international success.[7][8] According to a later profile on the author:

With this work, West not only found his way as a writer but discovered the theme that would underpin almost all of his subsequent books — the nature and misuse of power. Of the 18 novels he was to write post-1957, 15 are on this subject. This discovery was particularly felicitous for West because, it suited his talents admirably. An interesting comparison may be made with David Williamson, another writer from whom profound thinking and significant insights are not to be expected. What they have in common is a keen eye for the real world around them. By fleshing out the partially familiar, they make perceptive sense of it, demonstrating in the process that the general uneasiness and suspicion ordinary people feel about many aspects of contemporary life are well-founded. West was to show that he could identify these concerns with considerable acuity.[9]

He wrote The Second Victory (1958) (also known as Backlash and later filmed) and under the pseudonym "Michael East" wrote McCreary Moves In (1958) aka The Concubine.

Best-selling novelist edit

West's first best-selling novel was The Devil's Advocate (1959) which he spent two years writing.[10] He sold the film rights for $250,000 and it was adapted into a play and later a film.[7] West later said the novel earned him several million dollars.[8]

He wrote another "Michael East" novel, The Naked Country (1960), which was filmed in the 1980s. Daughter of Silence (1961) was also adapted into a play.

During this time he was the Vatican correspondent for the Daily Mail from 1956 to 1963.[11] His son, C. Chris O'Hanlon, said that he spent his first 12 birthdays in 12 different countries.[12]

The Shoes of the Fisherman (1963) was a huge success, selling over six million copies and made into a movie.[13]

He followed it with The Ambassador (1965), The Tower of Babel (1968), Summer of the Red Wolf (1971)[14] and The Salamander (1973). He wrote a non-fiction book, Scandal in the Assembly: A Bill of Complaints and a Proposal for Reform of the Matrimonial Laws and Tribunals of the Roman Catholic Church (1970, with Robert Francis).

He wrote a play The Heretic, based on Giordano Bruno, which was performed on the London stage in 1973. Further novels included Harlequin (1974), The Navigator (1976),[15] Proteus (1979) and The Clowns of God (1981).[16] In 1978 he was living in England, New York and Italy and said "I'm an Australian by origin, by identity, in manners. I have never felt any destruction or diminution of my identity by having a European education, or by acquiring a fluency in three languages and living abroad."[17] His advance of Clowns of God was £100,000.[18] By 1981 his books had sold over 25 million copies.[19]

West wrote the play The World is Made of Glass in 1982 for the Adelaide Festival. He turned this into a novel which was published the following year.[7]

Return to Australia edit

In 1982 West returned home to Australia. His later novels include Cassidy (1986) (which became a mini series), Masterclass (1988), Lazarus (1990), The Ringmaster (1991), and The Lovers (1993).[20]

In 1993, West announced that he had written his last book and a formal valedictory dinner was held in his honour. However, he found he could not retire as he had planned and wrote a further three novels and two non-fiction books: Vanishing Point (1996) and Eminence (1998), plus an anthology entitled Images and Inscriptions (1997) and his memoir A View from the Ridge: The Testimony of a Twentieth-century Pilgrim (1996).[21][22]

He was working on the novel The Last Confession when he died; it was posthumously published in 2000.

Writing edit

A major theme of much of West's work was a question: when so many organisations use extreme violence towards evil ends, when and under what circumstances is it morally acceptable for their opponents to respond with violence? He stated on different occasions that his novels all deal with the same aspect of life, that is, the dilemma when sooner or later you have a situation such that nobody can tell you what to do.[23]

West wrote with little revision. His first longhand version was usually not very different from the final printed version.[22] Despite winning many prizes and being awarded honorary doctorates,[24] his commercial success and his skills as a story teller, he never won the acceptance of Australia's literary clique. In the 1998 Oxford Literary History of Australia it was stated that: "Despite his international popularity, West has been surprisingly neglected by Australian literary critics." The previous edition, edited by Dame Leonie Kramer, did not mention him at all.[1]

West was awarded the 1959 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Devil's Advocate. In the early 1960s, he helped found the Australian Society of Authors.[1] He presented the 1986 Playford Lecture.[23]

Personal life edit

West was born on 26 April 1916, in St Kilda. He and his first wife, Elizabeth Harvey, had two children: Elizabeth, who became a nun, and Julian who was a wine-maker before his death in 2005. Julian and his wife Helen Grimaux, had a daughter named Juliana Harriett West.

West and Elizabeth Harvey divorced, and West then married Joyce "Joy" Lawford. Since his first wife, Elizabeth, was still alive when he married Joy, he struggled for a church annulment of his first marriage. He was out of communion with the Roman Catholic Church for many years because of this marital situation, and he had significant issues with the church's teachings. However, he never considered himself as anything other than a committed Catholic. Joy West said that he was a believer who attended Mass every Sunday.[22]

West and Joy had four children together. One son, C. Chris O'Hanlon, born in 1954, changed his name at the age of 26 as a gesture of independence. After starting four books in an attempt to realise what he believed were his father's expectations, and having to give back the advances he received from publishers when he could not finish them, he realised that he was not destined to be a writer. O'Hanlon, who suffers from a severe bipolar disorder, founded Spike Wireless, an internet design house.[12]

Another of West's sons, Mike, is a musician who fronted the UK independent popular music band Man from Delmonte during the late 1980s and early 1990s and has released several solo albums of New Orleans country music, especially being well known with the international touring act Truckstop Honeymoon.

West's grandson Anthony (Ant) West is also a musician, who fronted the UK music band Futures and currently is in the UK group Oh Wonder.

West died at the age of 83 on 9 October 1999 in Clareville, New South Wales.

Honours edit

West was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours of 1985.[25] He was upgraded to Officer of the Order in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1997.[26]

Bibliography edit

Fiction edit

Radio serials edit

Radio dramas edit

Plays edit

Non-fiction edit

  • Children of the Sun: The Slum Dwellers of Naples (1957) (US title: Children of the Shadows: The True Story of the Street Urchins of Naples)
  • Scandal in the Assembly: A Bill of Complaints and a Proposal for Reform of the Matrimonial Laws and Tribunals of the Roman Catholic Church (1970, with Robert Francis)
  • West, Morris (1996). A View from the Ridge: The Testimony of a Twentieth-century Pilgrim. Sydney: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-7322-5757-3.
  • West, Morris (1997). Images & Inscriptions. Selected and arranged by Beryl Barraclough. Sydney: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-7322-5827-8.

Film adaptations edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Sally Blakeney, "The outsider: How the literati shunned a luminary", Weekend Australian, 16–17 October 1999
  2. ^ Honan, William H., "Morris West, Popular Novelist Focusing on Faith, Dies at 83", New York Times, 12 October 1999.
  3. ^ "Saturday MAGAZINE". The Canberra Times. 6 August 1994. p. 43. Retrieved 7 April 2020 – via Trove.
  4. ^ ""Moon in My Pocket", by Julian Morris.—Australasian Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., Sydney". The Sydney Morning Herald. 29 September 1945. p. 7. Retrieved 7 April 2020 – via Trove.
  5. ^ "Radio Humour of Himalayas". The Advocate. Melbourne. 16 January 1946. p. 18. Retrieved 7 April 2020 – via Trove.
  6. ^ "GEORGE HART'S Radio Round- up". The Sun (LATE FINAL EXTRA ed.). New South Wales, Australia. 10 October 1952. p. 10. Retrieved 7 April 2020 – via Trove.
  7. ^ a b c d e "WRITERS' WORLD". The Canberra Times. 20 August 1983. p. 12. Retrieved 7 April 2020 – via Trove.
  8. ^ a b "FEATURES". The Canberra Times. 10 September 1994. p. 47. Retrieved 7 April 2020 – via Trove.
  9. ^ Missen, Mollie (20 February 1993). "A master storyteller signs off". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 44.
  10. ^ "The Australian Novelists I. MORRIS WEST". The Bulletin. 18 January 1961. p. 18.
  11. ^ Janet Chimonyo, "Vatican tag", Weekend Australian, 13–14 June 1998,
  12. ^ a b Jane Wheatley, interviewer, "The two of us: Morris West and C. Chris O'Hanlon", Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend, 14 February 1998
  13. ^ Davies, Hunter (1 September 1981). "Morris West: the monk from Melbourne identifier". The Bulletin. p. 72.
  14. ^ "West in the isles". The Canberra Times. 9 October 1971. p. 15. Retrieved 7 April 2020 – via Trove.
  15. ^ ""I've always wanted to do a musical"". The Australian Women's Weekly. Australia. 25 February 1976. p. 13. Retrieved 7 April 2020 – via Trove.
  16. ^ "Morris West on the millennium". The Canberra Times. 24 April 1985. p. 14. Retrieved 7 April 2020 – via Trove.
  17. ^ "The obsession of Morris West". The Canberra Times. 28 March 1978. p. 13. Retrieved 7 April 2020 – via Trove.
  18. ^ "LIFE STYLE". The Canberra Times. 22 April 1981. p. 29. Retrieved 7 April 2020 – via Trove.
  19. ^ "Morris West talks about his new book... and hopes he's lost the gift of prophecy". The Australian Women's Weekly. Australia. 18 March 1981. p. 13. Retrieved 7 April 2020 – via Trove.
  20. ^ "MAGAZINE: BOOKS". The Canberra Times. 13 March 1993. p. 9 (Saturday Magazine). Retrieved 7 April 2020 – via Trove.
  21. ^ "Morris West 'rewarded amply' for Ms work". The Canberra Times. 16 November 1988. p. 10. Retrieved 7 April 2020 – via Trove.
  22. ^ a b c Tony Stephens, "Last Writes'", Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, 3 June 2000
  23. ^ a b Maryanne Confoy, "Morris the maverick", Weekend Australian, 5–6 March 2005
  24. ^ Ramona Koval, "Academics, we want to feel your passion!", Weekend Australian, 16–17 October 1999
  25. ^ "It's an Honour: AM". from the original on 12 December 2019. Retrieved 16 June 2010.
  26. ^ "It's an Honour: AO". from the original on 27 December 2019. Retrieved 16 June 2010.
  27. ^ Rodney Wetherell, "Robert Peach, Broadcaster, 1923–2004", Sydney Morning Herald, 28 January 2004
  28. ^ a b Australian Radio Series 1930–1970 9 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  29. ^ Albert Moran and Chris Keating, The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television. Plymouth, UK: Scarecrow Press, 2007, p. 383

External links edit

 
Wikiquote has quotations related to Morris West.
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  • Morris West Australian theatre credits at AusStage

Further reading edit

  • Confoy, Maryanne (2005). Morris West: Literary Maverick. Milton, Queensland: John Wiley. ISBN 1-74031-119-1.

January 01, 1970
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Morris Langlo West AO 26 April 1916 9 October 1999 was an Australian novelist and playwright best known for his novels The Devil s Advocate 1959 The Shoes of the Fisherman 1963 and The Clowns of God 1981 His books were published in 27 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 1 Morris WestAOMorris WestBornMorris Langlo West 1916 04 26 26 April 1916St Kilda Victoria AustraliaDied9 October 1999 1999 10 09 aged 83 Clareville New South Wales AustraliaPen nameMichael East Julian MorrisOccupationWriterNationalityAustralianPeriod20th centuryGenreLiterary fictionNotable worksThe Shoes of the Fisherman The Devil s AdvocateNotable awardsJames Tait Black Memorial prize 1959 West s works were often focused on international politics and the role of the Roman Catholic Church in international affairs In The Shoes of the Fisherman he described the election and career of a Slav as Pope 15 years before the historic election of Karol Wojtyla as Pope John Paul II The sequel The Clowns of God described a successor Pope who resigned the papacy to live in seclusion 32 years before the abdication of Pope Benedict XVI in 2013 Contents 1 Early life 1 1 War service 2 Radio producer 3 Novelist 3 1 Early works 3 2 Best selling novelist 3 3 Return to Australia 4 Writing 5 Personal life 6 Honours 7 Bibliography 7 1 Fiction 7 2 Radio serials 7 3 Radio dramas 7 4 Plays 7 5 Non fiction 7 6 Film adaptations 8 References 9 External links 10 Further readingEarly life editWest was born in St Kilda Victoria the son of a commercial salesman Due to the large size of his family he was sent to live with his grandparents He attended the Christian Brothers College St Kilda where he was awarded the prize of Dux by Archbishop Daniel Mannix in 1929 At the age of 14 West entered the Congregation of Christian Brothers community at St Patricks in Strathfield Sydney as a kind of refuge from a difficult childhood 2 In 1934 he began teaching at St Thomas s Primary School Lewisham living in that community until 1936 He taught at schools in Tasmania and New South Wales between 1937 and 1939 while also studying at the University of Tasmania He left the Christian Brothers order in 1940 He worked as a salesman and a teacher War service edit In April 1941 West enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force He was commissioned as a lieutenant and worked as a cipher officer being eventually posted to Gladesville New South Wales in 1944 He was seconded from the RAAF to work for Billy Hughes former Australian prime minister for a time His first published novel Moon in My Pocket came out in 1945 using the pseudonym Julian Morris He wrote it while in the air force It was published by the Australasian Publishing Company a branch of Harrap s Publishing Company in London and sold more than 10 000 copies 3 4 Radio producer editWest worked as publicity manager at Melbourne radio station 3DB He moved into radio drama setting up his own radio production company ARP which operated from 1945 to 1954 For the next 10 years he focused on writing directing and producing radio plays and serials His radio plays included The Mask of Marius Melville 1945 The Curtain Rises 1946 5 The Affairs of Harlequin 1951 The Prince of Peace c 1951 When a Girl Marries 1952 6 The Enchanted Island 1952 Trumpets in the Dawn c 1953 54 and Genesis in Juddsville c 1955 56 The workload of his job and a crisis in his marital relations led to West having a nervous breakdown He ultimately sold his company to focus on writing full time 7 Novelist editEarly works edit West s first novel published under his own name was Gallows on the Sand 1955 written in seven days He followed it with Kundu 1956 a New Guinea adventure written in three weeks 7 He also wrote a play The Illusionists 1955 West moved to Europe with his family His third novel was The Big Story 1957 which was later filmed as The Crooked Road 1965 A trip to Naples led to meeting Father Borrelli who worked with the street boys of Naples This resulted in the non fiction book Children of the Sun 1957 which was West s first international success 7 8 According to a later profile on the author With this work West not only found his way as a writer but discovered the theme that would underpin almost all of his subsequent books the nature and misuse of power Of the 18 novels he was to write post 1957 15 are on this subject This discovery was particularly felicitous for West because it suited his talents admirably An interesting comparison may be made with David Williamson another writer from whom profound thinking and significant insights are not to be expected What they have in common is a keen eye for the real world around them By fleshing out the partially familiar they make perceptive sense of it demonstrating in the process that the general uneasiness and suspicion ordinary people feel about many aspects of contemporary life are well founded West was to show that he could identify these concerns with considerable acuity 9 He wrote The Second Victory 1958 also known as Backlash and later filmed and under the pseudonym Michael East wrote McCreary Moves In 1958 aka The Concubine Best selling novelist edit West s first best selling novel was The Devil s Advocate 1959 which he spent two years writing 10 He sold the film rights for 250 000 and it was adapted into a play and later a film 7 West later said the novel earned him several million dollars 8 He wrote another Michael East novel The Naked Country 1960 which was filmed in the 1980s Daughter of Silence 1961 was also adapted into a play During this time he was the Vatican correspondent for the Daily Mail from 1956 to 1963 11 His son C Chris O Hanlon said that he spent his first 12 birthdays in 12 different countries 12 The Shoes of the Fisherman 1963 was a huge success selling over six million copies and made into a movie 13 He followed it with The Ambassador 1965 The Tower of Babel 1968 Summer of the Red Wolf 1971 14 and The Salamander 1973 He wrote a non fiction book Scandal in the Assembly A Bill of Complaints and a Proposal for Reform of the Matrimonial Laws and Tribunals of the Roman Catholic Church 1970 with Robert Francis He wrote a play The Heretic based on Giordano Bruno which was performed on the London stage in 1973 Further novels included Harlequin 1974 The Navigator 1976 15 Proteus 1979 and The Clowns of God 1981 16 In 1978 he was living in England New York and Italy and said I m an Australian by origin by identity in manners I have never felt any destruction or diminution of my identity by having a European education or by acquiring a fluency in three languages and living abroad 17 His advance of Clowns of God was 100 000 18 By 1981 his books had sold over 25 million copies 19 West wrote the play The World is Made of Glass in 1982 for the Adelaide Festival He turned this into a novel which was published the following year 7 Return to Australia edit In 1982 West returned home to Australia His later novels include Cassidy 1986 which became a mini series Masterclass 1988 Lazarus 1990 The Ringmaster 1991 and The Lovers 1993 20 In 1993 West announced that he had written his last book and a formal valedictory dinner was held in his honour However he found he could not retire as he had planned and wrote a further three novels and two non fiction books Vanishing Point 1996 and Eminence 1998 plus an anthology entitled Images and Inscriptions 1997 and his memoir A View from the Ridge The Testimony of a Twentieth century Pilgrim 1996 21 22 He was working on the novel The Last Confession when he died it was posthumously published in 2000 Writing editA major theme of much of West s work was a question when so many organisations use extreme violence towards evil ends when and under what circumstances is it morally acceptable for their opponents to respond with violence He stated on different occasions that his novels all deal with the same aspect of life that is the dilemma when sooner or later you have a situation such that nobody can tell you what to do 23 West wrote with little revision His first longhand version was usually not very different from the final printed version 22 Despite winning many prizes and being awarded honorary doctorates 24 his commercial success and his skills as a story teller he never won the acceptance of Australia s literary clique In the 1998 Oxford Literary History of Australia it was stated that Despite his international popularity West has been surprisingly neglected by Australian literary critics The previous edition edited by Dame Leonie Kramer did not mention him at all 1 West was awarded the 1959 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Devil s Advocate In the early 1960s he helped found the Australian Society of Authors 1 He presented the 1986 Playford Lecture 23 Personal life editWest was born on 26 April 1916 in St Kilda He and his first wife Elizabeth Harvey had two children Elizabeth who became a nun and Julian who was a wine maker before his death in 2005 Julian and his wife Helen Grimaux had a daughter named Juliana Harriett West West and Elizabeth Harvey divorced and West then married Joyce Joy Lawford Since his first wife Elizabeth was still alive when he married Joy he struggled for a church annulment of his first marriage He was out of communion with the Roman Catholic Church for many years because of this marital situation and he had significant issues with the church s teachings However he never considered himself as anything other than a committed Catholic Joy West said that he was a believer who attended Mass every Sunday 22 West and Joy had four children together One son C Chris O Hanlon born in 1954 changed his name at the age of 26 as a gesture of independence After starting four books in an attempt to realise what he believed were his father s expectations and having to give back the advances he received from publishers when he could not finish them he realised that he was not destined to be a writer O Hanlon who suffers from a severe bipolar disorder founded Spike Wireless an internet design house 12 Another of West s sons Mike is a musician who fronted the UK independent popular music band Man from Delmonte during the late 1980s and early 1990s and has released several solo albums of New Orleans country music especially being well known with the international touring act Truckstop Honeymoon West s grandson Anthony Ant West is also a musician who fronted the UK music band Futures and currently is in the UK group Oh Wonder West died at the age of 83 on 9 October 1999 in Clareville New South Wales Honours editWest was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours of 1985 25 He was upgraded to Officer of the Order in the Queen s Birthday Honours of 1997 26 Bibliography editFiction edit Moon in My Pocket 1945 using the pseudonym Julian Morris Gallows on the Sand 1956 Kundu 1956 The Big Story 1957 aka The Crooked Road The Second Victory 1958 aka Backlash McCreary Moves In 1958 using the pseudonym Michael East aka The Concubine The Devil s Advocate 1959 The Naked Country 1960 using the pseudonym Michael East Daughter of Silence 1961 The Shoes of the Fisherman 1963 The Ambassador 1965 The Tower of Babel 1968 Summer of the Red Wolf 1971 The Salamander 1973 Harlequin 1974 aka The Duel of Death The Navigator 1976 Proteus 1979 The Clowns of God 1981 The World Is Made of Glass 1983 Cassidy 1986 Masterclass 1988 Lazarus 1990 The Ringmaster 1991 The Lovers 1993 Vanishing Point 1996 Eminence 1998 The Last Confession 2000 posthumously published Radio serials edit The Mask of Marius Melville 1945 27 The Prince of Peace c1951 28 Trumpets in the Dawn c1953 54 28 Genesis in Juddsville c1955 56 29 Radio dramas edit episode of Deadline Plays edit The Illusionists 1955 The Devil s Advocate 1961 Daughter of Silence 1962 The Heretic 1969 The World is Made of Glass 1982 Non fiction edit Children of the Sun The Slum Dwellers of Naples 1957 US title Children of the Shadows The True Story of the Street Urchins of Naples Scandal in the Assembly A Bill of Complaints and a Proposal for Reform of the Matrimonial Laws and Tribunals of the Roman Catholic Church 1970 with Robert Francis West Morris 1996 A View from the Ridge The Testimony of a Twentieth century Pilgrim Sydney HarperCollins ISBN 0 7322 5757 3 West Morris 1997 Images amp Inscriptions Selected and arranged by Beryl Barraclough Sydney HarperCollins ISBN 0 7322 5827 8 Film adaptations edit The Crooked Road based on The Big Story 1965 starring Robert Ryan The Shoes of the Fisherman 1968 starring Anthony Quinn The Devil s Advocate 1977 starring John Mills Daniel Massey Paola Pitagora and Stephane Audran The Salamander 1981 The Naked Country 1984 The Second Victory 1986 Cassidy 1989 References edit a b c Sally Blakeney The outsider How the literati shunned a luminary Weekend Australian 16 17 October 1999 Honan William H Morris West Popular Novelist Focusing on Faith Dies at 83 New York Times 12 October 1999 Saturday MAGAZINE The Canberra Times 6 August 1994 p 43 Retrieved 7 April 2020 via Trove Moon in My Pocket by Julian Morris Australasian Publishing Co Pty Ltd Sydney The Sydney Morning Herald 29 September 1945 p 7 Retrieved 7 April 2020 via Trove Radio Humour of Himalayas The Advocate Melbourne 16 January 1946 p 18 Retrieved 7 April 2020 via Trove GEORGE HART S Radio Round up The Sun LATE FINAL EXTRA ed New South Wales Australia 10 October 1952 p 10 Retrieved 7 April 2020 via Trove a b c d e WRITERS WORLD The Canberra Times 20 August 1983 p 12 Retrieved 7 April 2020 via Trove a b FEATURES The Canberra Times 10 September 1994 p 47 Retrieved 7 April 2020 via Trove Missen Mollie 20 February 1993 A master storyteller signs off Sydney Morning Herald p 44 The Australian Novelists I MORRIS WEST The Bulletin 18 January 1961 p 18 Janet Chimonyo Vatican tag Weekend Australian 13 14 June 1998 a b Jane Wheatley interviewer The two of us Morris West and C Chris O Hanlon Sydney Morning Herald Good Weekend 14 February 1998 Davies Hunter 1 September 1981 Morris West the monk from Melbourne identifier The Bulletin p 72 West in the isles The Canberra Times 9 October 1971 p 15 Retrieved 7 April 2020 via Trove I ve always wanted to do a musical The Australian Women s Weekly Australia 25 February 1976 p 13 Retrieved 7 April 2020 via Trove Morris West on the millennium The Canberra Times 24 April 1985 p 14 Retrieved 7 April 2020 via Trove The obsession of Morris West The Canberra Times 28 March 1978 p 13 Retrieved 7 April 2020 via Trove LIFE STYLE The Canberra Times 22 April 1981 p 29 Retrieved 7 April 2020 via Trove Morris West talks about his new book and hopes he s lost the gift of prophecy The Australian Women s Weekly Australia 18 March 1981 p 13 Retrieved 7 April 2020 via Trove MAGAZINE BOOKS The Canberra Times 13 March 1993 p 9 Saturday Magazine Retrieved 7 April 2020 via Trove Morris West rewarded amply for Ms work The Canberra Times 16 November 1988 p 10 Retrieved 7 April 2020 via Trove a b c Tony Stephens Last Writes Sydney Morning Herald Spectrum 3 June 2000 a b Maryanne Confoy Morris the maverick Weekend Australian 5 6 March 2005 Ramona Koval Academics we want to feel your passion Weekend Australian 16 17 October 1999 It s an Honour AM Archived from the original on 12 December 2019 Retrieved 16 June 2010 It s an Honour AO Archived from the original on 27 December 2019 Retrieved 16 June 2010 Rodney Wetherell Robert Peach Broadcaster 1923 2004 Sydney Morning Herald 28 January 2004 a b Australian Radio Series 1930 1970 Archived 9 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine Albert Moran and Chris Keating The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television Plymouth UK Scarecrow Press 2007 p 383External links edit nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Morris West Fiction set in Italy Morris West Australian theatre credits at AusStageFurther reading editConfoy Maryanne 2005 Morris West Literary Maverick Milton Queensland John Wiley ISBN 1 74031 119 1 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Morris West amp oldid 1193950539, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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