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Morris West
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Australian writer (1916-1999)
OverviewAI-generated
Morris West was an Australian writer and novelist who began his work period in 1945. He was born on 26 April 1916 in St Kilda and died on 9 October 1999 in Sydney. West was educated at the University of Melbourne and Australian Catholic University. He was a male who spoke English and held the Catholic worldview.
His notable works include The Devil's Advocate and The Shoes of the Fisherman. He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his writing. Other works attributed to him include Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume Three - 1963 - Summer Selections, Advocaat van de duivel, Lazarus, Best Sellers, and Vanishing Point.
Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, TMDb. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 26 April 1916
- Died
- 9 October 1999
- Works
- 77
Top works
- Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume Three - 1963 - Summer Selections
- Advocaat van de duivel
- Lazarus
- Best Sellers
- Vanishing Point
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing
Known for
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar — Self1957
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1977-06-08
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 10
- Total plays
- 94
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/MORRIS+WEST">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1
· 2003 · cited 31,144x
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· 2009 · cited 23,214x
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· 2001 · cited 18,623x
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· 2018 · cited 15,641x
- Society and the Adolescent Self-Image
· 1965 · cited 15,358x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “There are a few of us — madmen all! — who are in love with knowing, who would sell the last shirt from our backs for one small truth, one tiny star-fire to light up the murk and mystery of what we call our life… We may go blind before we see it, that's the haunting —”
- “No man — prince, peasant, pope, — has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. It is that liberty they fear. They want us to be driven to God like sheep, not running to him like lovers, shouting joy!"”
- “Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!”
- “If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.”
- “O Mother of Christ, who saw what men could do to one who heard an alien music! Bend to me, be tender. I am blind and deaf and dumb. And yet I do see visions, shout a kind of praise, feel in my pulse apocalyptic drums.”
- “I wonder how it will read five hundred years from now? — To make a man confess a loving God you burn him!”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- West
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- St Kilda
- Place of death
- Sydney
- Occupation
- novelist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Notable work
- The Shoes of the Fisherman
- Image
- Morris West.jpg
Show 4 more facts
- date of birth
- 1916-04-26
- date of death
- 1999-10-09
- Commons category
- Morris West
- start of work period
- 1945-00-00
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0