Author: Patrick White

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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.

My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.

- Patrick White

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.

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.

- Patrick White

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.

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.

- Patrick White

In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.

In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.

- Patrick White

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