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.

# " Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles " – written and performed by Captain Beefheart

Her mother, Sallye Davis, a graduate of Miles College in Birmingham, was an elementary school teacher.

" A Clear Spot song, " Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles ", appeared on the soundtrack of the Coen brothers ' cult comedy film The Big Lebowski ( 1998 ).

Her brother is film director, producer and screenwriter Christopher Miles.

Her partner is Keith Miles.

* Coleman, Verna ( 1981 ) " Her Unknown ( Brilliant ) Career: Miles Franklin in America " Angus and Robertson

Her Off-Broadway credits include Ron Taylor and Mayor Maggie in Bat Boy The Musical at Union Square Theatre, The Prince and the Pauper at The Lamb's Theatre, O ' Casey Knock at The John Houseman Theatre, Tango Ballad at The Actor's Studio and A Broadway's Diva Christmas at the Julia Miles Theatre.

Her second husband was Miles of Plancy, lord of Oultrejordain, who was assassinated in 1174.

Gene Clark wrote or co-wrote many of The Byrds ' best-known originals, including: " I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better ", " Set You Free This Time ", " Here Without You ", " If You're Gone ", " The World Turns All Around Her ", " She Don't Care About Time " and " Eight Miles High ".

Her most famous role is that of Miles " Tails " Prower in the English version of Sonic X and, from 2005, the video games of the franchise.

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.

Her affair with Charlie plays a crucial role in Miles ' life.

Her students have won many prizes including " several Australian / Vogel Awards ( for a first novel ), several different Premier's Awards, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and the Miles Franklin Award ".

Her recording of " We Shall Overcome " was made at Miles College in Birmingham, Alabama, on the same day of the mass arrest of Civil Rights demonstrators in May 1963.

Miles Davis Quintet w / Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Dave Holland & Jack DeJohnette, Thelonious Monk Quartet, Sarah Vaughan, Joe Williams, Cannonball Adderley Quintet, Roberta Flack & Her Trio, Sly and the Family Stone, and Buddy Rich Band

Her massive work, The Goldfields Trilogy — The Roaring Nineties ( 1946 ), Golden Miles ( 1948 ), and Winged Seeds ( 1950 )— is a major reconstruction of social and personal histories in Western Australia's goldfields from the 1890s to 1946.

Her exit storyline saw Kelly splitting up with Jimmy King ( Nick Miles ) after he found out that she had their unborn child aborted, in order to sign a modelling deal.

* Miles Franklin-My Brilliant Career

New South Wales State Librarian, Dagmar Schmidmaier, said that " Miles increasingly feared that nothing she wrote matched the success of My Brilliant Career and resorted to writing under different names, including the bizarre pseudonym Brent of Bin Bin, to protect herself from poor reviews.

* Miles Franklin: A Brilliant Career?

The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin ( 1879 – 1954 ), who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ( published in 1901 ) and for bequeathing her estate to fund this award.

Novelists of classic Australian works include Marcus Clarke ( For the Term of His Natural Life ), Miles Franklin ( My Brilliant Career ), Henry Handel Richardson ( The Fortunes of Richard Mahony ), Joseph Furphy ( Such Is Life ), Rolf Boldrewood ( Robbery Under Arms ) and Ruth Park ( The Harp in the South ).

Miles Franklin ( My Brilliant Career ) and Jeannie Gunn ( We of the Never Never ) wrote of lives of European pioneers in the Australian bush from a female perspective.

Miles Franklin struggled to find a place for herself as a female writer in Australia, fictionalising this experience in My Brilliant Career ( 1901 ).

Armstrong ’ s first feature length film " My Brilliant Career ( 1979 )", an adaptation of Miles Franklin's novel of the same name, was the first Australian feature length film to be directed by a woman for 46 years.

* My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin ; published in 1901.