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Sumner Locke Elliott (17 October 1917 – 24 June 1991) was an Australian (later American) novelist and playwright.
Sumner Locke Elliott (1917-1991), writer and playwright, was born on 17 October 1917 at Kogarah, Sydney, only child of Victorian-born Henry Logan Elliott, an accountant then serving with the Australian Imperial Force, and his Queensland-born wife Helena Sumner, née Locke, a writer.
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Jun 26, 1991 · Sumner Locke Elliott, a novelist and playwright whose fiction drew upon his formative years in his native Australia, died on Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 73 years old. He died of colon...
Careful, He Might Hear You is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Sumner Locke Elliott. It was published in 1963 and was the author's first novel.
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Sumner Locke Elliott. Elliott was born in Sydney in 1917 to the writer Helena Sumner Locke and the journalist Henry Logan Elliott. His mother died of eclampsia one day after his birth.
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Sumner Locke Elliott has 21 books on Goodreads with 1787 ratings. Sumner Locke Elliott’s most popular book is Careful He Might Hear You.
Jul 13, 2017 · First published in 1963, Sumner Locke Elliott’s Careful, He Might Hear You is a big, beautiful, bold-hearted book set in Sydney during the Great Depression. It’s most definitely a five-star read.
