23 Facts About Frank Moorhouse

Frank Thomas Moorhouse was an Australian writer who won major national prizes for the short story, the novel, the essay and for script writing.

Frank Moorhouse's work has been published in the United Kingdom, France and the United States, and translated into German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Serbian and Swedish.

Frank Moorhouse's mother was a direct descendant of John Boden Yeates, a British convict transported to Australia in 1837.

Frank Moorhouse's father was an inventor of agricultural machinery who, with his wife, established a factory in Nowra to make machinery for the dairy industry.

Frank Moorhouse completed his compulsory national military service of three months' basic training and three years part-time in the Reserve Army in the University of Sydney Regiment and in the Riverina Regiment, Wagga Wagga.

Frank Moorhouse returned to Sydney to become an administrator and tutor in media studies for the Workers' Educational Association and later became editor of the WEA magazine The Highway.

The author of 18 books, Frank Moorhouse became a full-time fiction writer during the 1970s, writing essays, short stories, journalism and film, radio, and TV scripts.

Frank Moorhouse wrote and lectured on the way communication and the control of communication has been developing and the relationship of creative professionals to the economy and to the political system.

Frank Moorhouse was active in the defence of freedom of expression and in analysis of the issues affecting it and in the 1970s was arrested and prosecuted on a couple of occasions while campaigning against censorship.

Frank Moorhouse was in turns the chairman, a director, and one of the founding group of the Australia Copyright Agency, which was set up by publishers and authors to coordinate the use of copyright and which now distributes millions of dollars annually to Australian writers.

Frank Moorhouse was a past president of the Australian Society of Authors and a member of the Australian Press Council.

Frank Moorhouse was an organiser for the Australian Journalists' Association.

Frank Moorhouse was appointed a member of the Sydney PEN eminent writers panel in 2005.

Frank Moorhouse participated in Australian and overseas conferences in arts, communication and related areas and served as a guest lecturer and writer-in-residence at sundry Australian and overseas universities.

Frank Moorhouse married his high-school girlfriend Wendy Halloway in 1959, but they separated four years later, having no children.

Frank Moorhouse was a gourmet with a special passion for oysters.

Frank Moorhouse once said that he was a member of a think-tank called Wining and Dining.

Frank Moorhouse died at a hospital in Sydney on 26 June 2022 at the age of 83.

In 1985, Frank Moorhouse was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for service to Australian literature; and in 2001 he received the Centenary Medal for service to Australian society through writing.

Frank Moorhouse was conferred with a Doctor of Letters honoris causa by Griffith University.

In 2009, Frank Moorhouse was awarded the Senior Fellowship of the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz.

Frank Moorhouse was conferred a Doctor of Letters honoris causa by the University of Sydney, and Doctor of the University by Griffith University.

Frank Moorhouse was deeply unhappy at their unauthorised publication and at the suggestion that she had had an affair with one of her teachers.