biography
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Braddon, Russell (Reading)
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| lived:
| (1921– )
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| biography:
| Writer, playwright, and film and television script-writer, born in Sydney, New South Wales, SE Australia. He studied at Sydney University, and during World War 2 was a prisoner of the Japanese for four years, and worked on the Burma Railway. His experiences were published as The Naked Island (1952) and End of a Hate (1958). A string of popular novels followed, but he is perhaps best known for his biographies, such as Cheshire VC (1954), Nancy Wake (1956), and Joan Sutherland (1962). |
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