Miles Franklin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Miles Franklin

Australian writer and feminist

Date of Birth: 14-Oct-1879

Place of Birth: Talbingo, New South Wales, Australia

Date of Death: 19-Sep-1954

Profession: writer, novelist, non-fiction writer, feminist

Nationality: Austria, Australia

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, known as Miles Franklin (14 October 1879 – 19 September 1954) was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, published by Blackwoods of Edinburgh in 1901.
While she wrote throughout her life, her other major literary success, All That Swagger, was not published until 1936. She was committed to the development of a uniquely Australian form of literature, and she actively pursued this goal by supporting writers, literary journals, and writers' organisations.
She has had a long-lasting impact on Australian literary life through her endowment of a major annual prize for literature about "Australian Life in any of its phases", the Miles Franklin Award.
Her impact was further recognised in 2013 with the creation of the Stella Prize, awarded annually for the best work of literature by an Australian woman.