Miles Franklin
Australian writer and feminist
Years: 1879 - 1954
Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (October 14, 1879 – September 19, 1954), known as Miles Franklin, is an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, published by Blackwoods of Edinburgh in 1901.
While she writes throughout her life, her other major literary success, All That Swagger, is not published until 1936.
She is committed to the development of a uniquely Australian form of literature, and she actively pursues this goal by supporting writers, literary journals, and writers' organizations.
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 will be further recognized in 2013 with the creation of the Stella Prize, awarded annually for the best work of literature by an Australian woman.
