Patrick White

Patrick White is presented here as a writer passionately involved in the social and political events of his time. A thoughtful selection of fiction, poetry, theatre pieces, speeches, letters, essays, interviews and autobiographical writing.

Happy Valley is a 1939 novel by Australian author Patrick White. It won the 1941 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. White did not allow the novel to be republished in his lifetime. Not until 2012 would the book come back into print. White had dedicated the novel to artist Roy De Maistre. The book owed much to …