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Producers note - Sitemap - Credits - Bibliography
Producer's note Patrick White was a great writer and an Australian. He is the only Australian writer yet to have won the Nobel Prize for literature. Many Australians though have not even heard of him and his work seems to have been pushed back into the unreachable shelves of bookcases. During his lifetime his writing was sometimes called 'unAustralian' and his style was criticised as being 'intellectual' -- meaning not for the ordinary Australian reader. The negative criticisms seem to have hung on even after his style and breadth of topic developed, and as the literary awards and comparisons came through. People still think Patrick White is a British writer and a boring one at that. I wish they could hear the raucous laughter he can cause a reader, the sighs of recognition and the rapture. I read my first Patrick White in 1971 when I first arrived in Australia. I reread The Tree of Man fifteen years later to see if it had the same impact. It did. I have since read and reread all his novels but one. I wish I could share the pleasure they have given me. Why Bother With Patrick White presents a picture of the writer's life that will inspire, amuse and attract people to the works. In the Titles section all of White's works are introduced and often linked to lengthy excerpts. The program also includes three complete short stories and five speeches. Finally, the Opinions section presents the words of 20 people about the writer and the man -- Patrick White who was hypersensitive to the opinions of others and famously unsparing with his own.
Audio Clips Throughout the Life section of this website, you will find the
Site map
LIFE
TITLES
EXCERPTS
OPINIONS
Credits NEW MEDIA PRODUCTIONS Peggy Converse - design and production: nmptech@yahoo.com Peter Converse - design and writing : winum@yahoo.com Mark Burban - design and development: bigurban@yap.com.au Karina and David McInnes - design: kmcinnes@bigpond.com.au Professor Alan Lawson - educational consultant and writing: a.lawson@mailbox.uq.edu.au
McVILLY DESIGNS Paul McVilly - caricature artist: paulmcvilly@hotmail.com
ABC Mireille Vignol - executive producer Laurindo Garcia - senior developer Sian Prior & Nancy Atkin - sub-editing Domenic Friguglietti - ABC-Cinemedia Production Accord Manager CINEMEDIA Maria Toscano - ABC-Cinemedia Production Accord Manager
WITH MANY THANKS TO: The Estate of Patrick White, Barbara Mobbs Executrix • Manoly Lascaris • Desmond Digby • Elizabeth Harrower • Kerry Walker • David Marr • The Whites of Belltrees, Scone, N.S.W. • Helen and Gary Ghent • 'Withycombe', Mount Wilson, N.S.W. • Frances Peck Richardson • The Mitchell Library, N.S.W. • Ninette Dutton • Ian Huebsch • Jinx Nolan Livermore • Barry Humphries • Larry Lucas • William Yang 
Bibliography
David Marr, Patrick White - a life, Random House Australia, Sydney, 1991. David Marr (ed.), Patrick White Letters, Random House Australia, Sydney, 1994. Patrick White, Patrick White Speaks, Primavera Press, Sydney, Publisher Paul Brennan, 1989. Helen Verity Hewitt, Patrick White and the Influence of the Visual Arts in his Work, Doctoral Thesis, Dept. of English, University of Melbourne, 1995. Clayton Joyce (ed.)Patrick White A Tribute, Angus & Robertson, Harper Collins, North Ryde, 1991. Alan Lawson (ed.)Patrick White Selected Writings, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1994. Brian Kiernan, Patrick White, Macmillan Commonwealth Writers Series, The Macmillan Press, London, 1980. Barry Argyle, Patrick White, Writers and Critics, Oliver and Boyd, London, 1967 William Yang, Patrick White The Late Years, PanMacmillan Australia, 1995. Peter Beatson, The Eye in the Mandala Patrick White: A Vision of Man and God, Barnes & Nobles, London, 1976. Laurence Steven, Dissociation and Wholeness in Patrick White's Fiction, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Ontario, 1989. 'A Conversation with Patrick White', Australian Writers in Profile, Southerly, No.3 1973. John Docker, Patrick White and Romanticism: The Vivisector, Southerly, No.1, 1973 James Bertram, Book Review of Patrick White's Flaws in the Glass, NZ Listener, 1981. Janet Hawley, Book Review of David Marr's Patrick White Letters, Good Weekend Magazine, 1994. Please Note: Professor Alan Lawson wrote novel and play synopses especially for this project.
Produced and Recorded in 1988 by ABC Radio National. Script by Michael Le Moignan and Larry Lucas.
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