id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7051 Patrick White - Wikipedia .html text/html 6486 784 77 Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990) was an Australian writer who published 12 novels, three short-story collections, and eight plays, from 1935 to 1987. He was among the first group of Companions of the Order of Australia in 1975 but resigned in June 1976 in protest at the dismissal of the Whitlam government in November 1975 by the Governor-General Sir John Kerr.[27] In 1979, his novel The Twyborn Affair was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, but White requested that it to be removed to give younger writers a chance to win. David Marr, Patrick White – A Life, Random House Australia, Sydney, 1991. David Marr (ed.), Patrick White Letters, Random House Australia, Sydney, 1994. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7051.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7051.txt