Author · Australia
Arthur William Upfield
Died in 1964
Arthur William Upfield was born on 1 September 1890 in Gosport, in Hampshire, the son of a draper. His father, disappointed by his examinations, sent him to Australia, where he arrived in 1911; he then travelled the outback and worked at all kinds of jobs there. Enlisted in August 1914, he fought at Gallipoli and in France and married the nurse Anne Douglass in Egypt. His inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, a mixed-race man who graduated from the University of Queensland, returns in twenty-nine novels. He died on 12 February 1964 in Bowral, south of Sydney.
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- NovelThe House of CainArthur William Upfield · 1928Literature