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Sargeson, Frank

LC control no.n 50017365
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPR9639.3.S3
Personal name headingSargeson, Frank
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Variant(s)Davey, Norris Frank
Associated countryNew Zealand
LocatedTakapuna (Auckland, N.Z.)
Birth date1903-03-23
Death date1982-03-01
Place of birthHamilton (N.Z.)
Place of deathAuckland (N.Z.)
Field of activityShort stories Novels
Profession or occupationAuthors Novelists
Found inHis A man and his wife, 1940.
His Conversation in a train and other critical writing, 1983: t.p. (Frank Sargeson) jkt. (d. 1982)
Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1903)
New Zealand Book Council website, May 6, 2019 (Sargeson, Frank (1903-82); born in Hamilton, trained as a solicitor and worked in Europe for several years before settling near Takapuna, where he remained for the rest of his life. He published forty stories between 1936 and 1954, and in these years he dominated New Zealand short fiction; born Norris Frank Davey)
   <https://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writer/sargeson-frank/>
Encyclopædia Britannica online, May 6, 2019 (Frank Sargeson, New Zealand writer; original name Norris Frank Davey; born March 23, 1903, Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand--died March 1, 1982, Auckland; novelist and short-story writer whose ironic, stylistically diverse works made him the most widely known New Zealand literary figure of his day; from 1931 Davey lived in his family's bach (beach house) in Takapuna; adopted the name Frank Sargeson (legally changing it in 1946))
   <https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frank-Sargeson>
Associated languageeng