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“In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.”
 
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Name:   Patrick White
 
Nationality:   Australian
 
Date of Birth:   May 28, 1912
 
Date of Death:   Sep 30,  1990
 
Profession:   Author
 
 
 
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
 
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
 
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Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.
 
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Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.
 
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
 
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