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Ray Mathew was born on 14 April, 1929 in Australia, is an Australian writer. Discover Ray Mathew's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

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Age 73 years old
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Born 14 April 1929
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Date of death 27 May, 2002
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1929

Raymond Frank "Ray" Mathew (14 April 1929 – 27 May 2002) was an Australian author.

Mathew wrote poetry, drama, radio plays and filmscripts, short stories, novels, arts and literature criticism, and other non-fiction.

1947

He attended Sydney Teachers College from 1947 to 1949.

1949

Between 1949 and 1951 Mathew taught at small country schools in New South Wales, where he was often the only teacher.

1950

During the 1950s Mathew also worked in shops, moved furniture, gave school broadcasts and adult education lectures, wrote literary reviews for the Sydney Morning Herald as a freelance journalist, worked for the CSIRO as an accounts officer 1952–1954 and was a tutor and lecturer at the University of Sydney 1955–1960.

1958

His experience as a lone and lonely teacher is expressed in his most well-known play, A Spring Song, which was first performed in 1958.

1960

He left Australia in 1960 and never returned, dying in New York where he had lived from 1968.

Mathew was born in Sydney and lived in Leichhardt and Bondi, Sydney during his childhood, attending Sydney Boys High School.

Mathew left Australia for Italy in 1960.

1967

His last published book, The Joys of Possession, appeared in 1967.

Eva Kollsman became a lifelong patron and supporter of Mathews, and theirs was an intensely intimate relationship.

She donated his papers to the National Library of Australia following his death and established a trust to support research into Australian writers.

The National Library of Australia holds Ray Mathews papers.

They were donated by Eve Kollsman.

1968

After some time there he moved to London, where he lived until 1968 when he went to New York and met the inventor, Paul Kollsman and his wife Eva.

His British lover, Tony Hippisley, had committed suicide the year before.

The Kollsmans, and especially Eva, assisted Mathew through their literary connections.

Mathew remained in New York for the rest of his life.

1969

In 1969, he wrote in a letter to his Australian artist friend, Pixie O'Harris, "I have probably not been happier in my life. There are people here I like immensely.... I'm 40 – I feel very grown up."

He worked as a freelance writer and art critic while working on his novels and poetry.

While he continued to write for the rest of his life publishing success evaded him.