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: Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country

* 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.

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.

** Shirley Horn for I Remember Miles

The first filmed appearance of Anne Shirley was in the 1919 silent film, Anne of Green Gables, in which the role was played by Mary Miles Minter.

** Shirley Horn for I Remember Miles

* Shirley Hazzard's novel The Great Fire wins the Miles Franklin Award

In June 2011, an investigation by the Office of the Inspector General, U. S. Department of Defense substantiated allegations of abuse of power by DoDEA's former director, Shirley Miles.

Hammer, Prince, Billy Preston, Miles Davis, Nancy Wilson, Sammy Davis Jr., Nelson Riddle & The Nelson Riddle Orchestra, Tower of Power, Kirk Franklin, Andrae Crouch, John P. Kee, Shirley Caesar, BeBe Winans, Crystal Lewis, Bernard Wright, Tommy Sims, Joe Satriani, Bruce Conti, Doug Webb, Mike Garson, Wilton Felder, Nate Watts, James Jamerson Jr., pianist Rob Mullins, N ' Dugu Chancellor, Rick James, Justin Timberlake, Herbie Hancock, Maroon 5 and Cuba Ingram, among others.

She was formerly married to physician Miles Little, Dukes of Hazzard star John Schneider, and CBS executive Don Corsini.

The Psalter, which had not been printed out in the 1549, 1552 or 1559 Books — was in 1662 provided in Miles Coverdale's translation from the Great Bible of 1538.

Hints about this future war are dropped in several books earlier in the series beginning with Lawrence Miles's Alien Bodies and the war itself plays out as it would have originally done in Miles ' Faction Paradox series in which certain names are changed for copyright reasons ( the Time Lords become the Great Houses and Gallifrey becomes the Home World ).

On 17 December 1538, the Inquisitor-General of France interdicted the printing of Miles Coverdale's Great Bible.

At 17 Williams found considerable fame with Miles Davis, joining a group that was later dubbed Davis's Second Great Quintet.

Through her maternal grandfather Francis Remnant, Miles claims to be the great-granddaughter of Prince Francis of Teck ( 1870 – 1910 ) and thus a second cousin once removed of Elizabeth II of Great Britain.

In the 1960s, he went on to join Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet, and from there he co-founded the jazz fusion band Weather Report.

He presented an episode, " Three Miles High ", in the first series of the BBC's Great Railway Journeys travelling through parts of Peru and Bolivia.

On January 8, 1877 Colonel Miles and infantry units engaged in one of the last battles of the Great Sioux War of 1876-77 near Birney, Montana in the Tongue River Valley.

* Great Rural Speeches: Miles Franklin

In his remaining time in the Court of Appeal, Birkett judged several notable cases, in particular Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v Boots Cash Chemists ( Southern ) Ltd 1 QB 401, and Entores Ltd v Miles Far East Corporation 2 QB 327, where the court made a landmark decision on acceptance of a contract in relation to Telex.

** The First Great Quintet ( 1955 – 1958 ) Miles Davis, trumpet ; John Coltrane, tenor saxophone ; Red Garland, piano ; Paul Chambers, bass ; Philly Joe Jones, drums.

** The Second Great Quintet ( 1964 – 1968 ) Miles Davis, trumpet ; Wayne Shorter, tenor saxophone ; Herbie Hancock, piano ; Ron Carter, bass ; Tony Williams, drums.

At the top of the tower there is a viewpoint indicator placed there in commemoration of Walker Miles, whose work in the early days of the Rambler's movement contributed to the formation of The Ramblers of Great Britain.

In 1655, Cromwell appointed three Commissioners of the Great Seal of Ireland, Richard Pepys, Chief Justice of the Upper Bench, Sir Gerard Lowther, Chief Justice of the Common Bench ; and Miles Corbet, Chief Baron of the Exchequer.

* In the game Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth, the Yatagarasu is the name of the world-renowned " Great Thief " known for " stealing the truth ".

* John Miles ( fl. 1404 ), MP for Great Grimsby ( UK Parliament constituency )

Miles played a leading role in nearly all of the Army's campaigns against the American Indian tribes of the Great Plains.

Her next novel, The Great Fire, which took her 20 years to complete, garnered the 2003 National Book Award, the 2004 Miles Franklin Award, and the 2005 William Dean Howells Medal.

A surveyor and cartographer, his Fry-Jefferson Map of 1751 accurately depicted the Allegheny Mountains for the first time and showed the route of " The Great Road from the Yadkin River through Virginia to Philadelphia distant 455 Miles " — what would later come to be known as the Great Wagon Road.

She recruits Miles Vorkosigan, on a courtesy diplomatic mission attending the state funeral of the late Empress, to help solve the mystery of the disappearance of the Great Key, a sophisticated decoding device without which the entire genetic database of the haut is indecipherable.

When the question of rewarding Miles for his help recovering the Great Key arises, he awards Miles the Cetagandan Order of Merit, a medal which satisfies Miles's deep need for recognition and which also ensures he will be discreet about the episode back on Barrayar, where the Medal would be anathema.