Frank Sargeson

Died in 1982

Norris Frank Davey was born in Hamilton on 23 March 1903, the second of four children in a Methodist family. Admitted as a solicitor in 1926, he travelled in Europe in 1927 and 1928, then was convicted in 1929, with a suspended sentence, over a homosexual relationship and had to live with his uncle, a farmer in the King Country. Settled in 1931 in the family hut at Takapuna, he grew his own vegetables there, lived on benefits and then on an invalid's pension for tuberculosis, took the name Frank Sargeson, made official in 1946, and helped young writers. He died in Auckland on 1 March 1982.

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Short storiesThat Summer and Other StoriesFrank Sargeson · 1946Literature