It has 2 properties: the Price-Sanders Scout Reservation in Charlotte with the Dr. Franklin Miles Camp and Camp Gannett, and Camp Flying Eagle in Manatee.

* His book Father and Son partially inspired Oscar and Lucinda, a novel by Peter Carey which won the 1988 Booker Prize, and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award.

Novelists of classic Australian works include Marcus Clarke ( For the Term of His Natural Life ), Rolf Boldrewood ( Robbery Under Arms ), Miles Franklin ( My Brilliant Career ), Mary Durack ( Kings in Grass Castles and Keep Him My Country ) and Jeannie Gunn ( We of the Never Never ).

* Miles Franklin Award: Tim Winton, Dirt Music

* Miles Franklin Award: Tie: Thea Astley, Drylands ; Kim Scott, Benang

* Miles Franklin Award: Murray Bail, Eucalyptus

* September 19 – Miles Franklin, novelist

* Miles Franklin Award: Patrick White, Voss

* Miles Franklin Award: Randolph Stow, To the Islands

* Miles Franklin Award: Vance Palmer, The Big Fellow

My Brilliant Career is a 1901 novel written by Miles Franklin.

It is the first of many novels by Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin ( 1879 – 1954 ), one of the major Australian writers of her time.

Oscar and Lucinda is a novel by Australian author Peter Carey which won the 1988 Booker Prize, the 1989 Miles Franklin Award, and was shortlisted for The Best of the Booker.

Category: Miles Franklin Award winning works

" Among the better-known contributors were the writers Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson, Bernard O ' Dowd, Joseph Furphy, Miles Franklin, Harrison Owen, Robert Kaleski and Vance and Nettie Palmer, the cartoonists Livingston Hopkins (" Hop "), David Low, Phil May, D. H. Souter, Norman " Heth " Hetherington, and the illustrator and novelist Norman Lindsay.

Kim Scott won the 2000 Miles Franklin Award for his novel “ Benang '.

Initially radical, nationalist, democratic, and racist, it gained wide influence and became a celebrated entry-point to publication for Australian writers and cartoonists such as Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson, Miles Franklin, and the illustrator and novelist Norman Lindsay.

It was first published in 1994 under the pseudonym Helen Demidenko and won the Miles Franklin Award the following year before becoming the subject of a major Australian literary controversy about the author's false claims of Ukrainian ethnicity.

The deception was revealed by the Australian media when her novel won the Miles Franklin Award, one of the most prestigious literary awards in Australia.

Besides rock, Graham also featured non-rock acts such as Lenny Bruce, Miles Davis, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Charles Lloyd, Aretha Franklin, and Otis Redding as well as poetry readings.

Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, known as Miles Franklin ( 14 October 187919 September 1954 ) was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, published in 1901.

Shortly after finishing at RADA, Miles debuted as Shirley Taylor in Term of Trial ( 1962 ), co-starring with Laurence Olivier ; she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer.

Soon afterwards, Miles became a well-reputed actress of the British New Wave with her roles in Joseph Losey's The Servant ( 1963 ), in which she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress, and Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup ( 1966 ).

In 1995, Pat Metheny was granted the Miles Davis Award by the Montreal International Jazz Festival.

* Broadcast Music Incorporated: BMI Film Music Award, Carlos Santana and Miles Goodman ; 1988.

It won the 2008 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles National Literary Award for Poetry.

She has had a long-lasting impact on Australian literary life through her endowment of a major literary award known as the Miles Franklin Award.

In her will she made a bequest for her estate to establish an annual literary award known as The Miles Franklin Award.

* George Johnston – Author of the Miles Franklin Award winning novel My Brother Jack.

* Miles Franklin Award: Shirley Hazzard, The Great Fire

Jones, Kate Keenan ( Emmy nominee ), Dan Kemp, Sondra Locke, Robert Loggia, Tina Louise, Barbara Luna, George Maharis, Robert Mandan, Vera Miles, Donna Mills, Leslie Nielsen ( Emmy nominee ), Nick Nolte, Sheree North, Lee Paul, John M. Pickard, Stefanie Powers ( Emmy nominee ), Judson Pratt, Denver Pyle, Dack Rambo, Wayne Rogers, John Rubinstein ( Emmy nominee ), Tom Skerritt ( Emmy nominee ), David Soul, Peter Strauss ( Emmy nominee ), Vic Tayback, Joan Van Ark, a young Vincent Van Patten, John Vernon, Jessica Walter ( Emmy nominee ), future soap opera star Jess Walton ( multiple Daytime Emmy Award winner ), Cindy Williams, William Windom, Dana Wynter, and Anthony Zerbe ( Emmy Award winner in 1976 — Best Supporting Actor ).

He was the recipient of the prestigious Miles Davis Award at the Montreal Jazz Festival.

Baldwin also knew Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, Billy Dee Williams, Huey P. Newton, Nikki Giovanni, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Genet ( with whom he campaigned on behalf of the Black Panther Party ), Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, Rip Torn, Alex Haley, Miles Davis, Amiri Baraka, Martin Luther King, Jr., Margaret Mead, Josephine Baker, Allen Ginsberg and Maya Angelou.

Many of the animated shorts were created by cartoonists who later became more prominent, including Bob Boyle, Thomas R. Fitzgerald, Bill Burnett, Jaime Diaz, Greg Emison, John Eng, John Fountain, Antoine Guilbaud, Butch Hartman, Larry Huber, Steve Marmel, Zac Moncrief, Ken Kessel, Alex Kirwan, Seth MacFarlane, Carlos Ramos, Rob Renzetti, C. Miles Thompson, Byron Vaughns, Pat Ventura, Vincent Waller and David Wasson.

The snooker playing fraternity was represented by Alex Higgins, John Pulman, Jackie Rea, Graham Miles, John Spencer, Eddie Charlton, Cliff Thorburn and female professional Joyce Gardner.

He twice reached the semi-final of the World Championship, losing in 1972 to Alex Higgins ( having been four frames ahead with five left to play ) and, in 1974, to Graham Miles.

For the 2006 – 07 season teh club saw former player Phil Miles take over as Manager, however this lasted until December that season when he had to stand down due to work commitments with Steve Binks taking over the job again, then to be followed by 1st team coach Alex O ’ Brien become manager for the 2009 – 10 campaign.

* Alex Miller's novel Journey to the Stone Country wins the Miles Franklin Award

20 Miles from Piccadilly Circus featuring Alex Kennedy consisted of six half-hour episodes about various aspects of life in the village.

Else, David ; Newton, Alex ; Williams, Jeff ; Fitzpatrick, Mary ; and Roddis, Miles, 1999, West Africa.

* The Last Shadow Puppets, a British musical project by Alex Turner, Miles Kane and James Ford

The song was dedicated to three of the band's fallen friends: record producer Alex Sadkin, artist Andy Warhol, and Simon Le Bon's childhood friend David Miles.

Ling has also been captured by the legends and masters of fashion photography including, Albert Watson, Alex Cao, Annie Leibovitz, Christophe Jouany, Christophe Kutner, Christophe Rihet, David Bailey, David Seidner, David La Chapelle, Denis Piel, Dominique Isserman, Donald Chiu, Ellen Von Unwerth, Eugenio Recuenco, Feng Hai, Francois Nars, Gian Paolo Barbieri, Gilles Bensimon, Glen Luchford, Giovanni Gastel, Irving Penn, Jean Baptiste-Mondino, John-Paul Pietrus, Leslie Kee, Marc Hom, Marco Glaviano, Mario Testino, Matthew Rolston, Max Vadukal, Michael Thompson, Michel Comte, Michelangelo di Battista, Miles Aldridge, Nadir, Patrick Demarchelier, Peter Lindbergh, Raymond Meier, Sheila Metzner, Steven Meisel, Thiemo Sander, Tom Munro, Torkil Gudnason, Troy Word, Then, Valerie Belin, Vincent Peters, Walter Chin, Wayne Maser and the legendary Richard Avedon, who photographed Ling for the prestigious Pirelli calendar in 1997.

* Alex Miller's novel The Ancestor Game wins the Miles Franklin Award