Patrick White died in Sydney, Australia, in September 1990. In 1981 he brought out his autobiography Flaws in the Glass: a self-portrait. Best known among his later novels are The Eye of the Storm (1973), A Fringe of Leaves (1976) and The Twyborn Affair (1979). In 1973 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. After the war, the novels The Aunt's Story (1948) and The Tree of Man (1955) received international acclaim, but in Australia his breakthrough as a novelist only came with Voss (1957) followed by his most famous works Riders in the Chariot (1961) and The Vivisector (1970). During a stay in New York City, USA, he wrote The Living and the Dead published in 1941 when he was already working as an intelligence officer for the British Royal Air Force in World War II. After his father’s death in 1937, Patrick White became a full-time writer and reworked his first novel titled Happy Valley (1939). Still as a student he published his first volume of poetry and brought out some plays. After boarding school in England he worked as a stockman in Australia for two years and then returned to England to study French and German literature. Patrick White was born in London, United Kingdom, in May 1912 and grew up in Sydney, Australia.
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