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Dymphna Cusack was born on 21 September, 1902 in Australia, is an Australian author and playwright (1902–1981). Discover Dymphna Cusack's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?
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Author, playwright |
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79 years old |
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Virgo |
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21 September, 1902 |
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21 September |
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19 October, 1981 |
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Australia
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Dymphna Cusack Height, Weight & Measurements
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She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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Dymphna Cusack Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Dymphna Cusack worth at the age of 79 years old? Dymphna Cusack’s income source is mostly from being a successful author. She is from Australia. We have estimated Dymphna Cusack's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Ellen Dymphna Cusack AM (21 September 1902 – 19 October 1981) was an Australian writer and playwright.
Born in Wyalong, New South Wales, Cusack was educated at Saint Ursula's College, Armidale, New South Wales and graduated from the University of Sydney with an honours degree in arts and a diploma in Education.
Her collaborative novels were Pioneers on Parade (1939) with Miles Franklin, and Come In Spinner (1951) with Florence James.
She worked as a teacher until she retired in 1944 for health reasons.
The play Red Sky at Morning was filmed in 1944, starring Peter Finch.
Cusack was a foundation member of the Australian Society of Authors in 1963.
Her younger brother, John, was also an author, writing the war novel They Hosed Them Out under the pseudonym John Beede, which was first published in 1965; an expanded edition under the author's real name, John Bede Cusack, was published in 2012 by Wakefield Press, edited and annotated by Robert Brokenmouth.
Cusack advocated social reform and described the need for reform in her writings.
She contributed to the world peace movement during the Cold War era as an antinuclear activist.
She and her husband Norman Freehill were members of the Communist Party and they left their entire estates to the Party in their wills.
The biography Caddie, the Story of a Barmaid, to which Cusack wrote an introduction and helped the author write, was produced as the film Caddie in 1976.
Her illness was confirmed in 1978 as multiple sclerosis.
She died at Manly, New South Wales on 19 October 1981.
Cusack wrote twelve novels (two of which were collaborations), eleven plays, three travel books, two children's books and one non-fiction book.
She had refused an Order of the British Empire, but was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1981 for her contribution to Australian literature.
The novel Come In Spinner was produced as a television series by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1989, and broadcast in March 1990.
In 2011, Cusack was one of 11 authors, including Elizabeth Jolley and Manning Clark, to be permanently recognised by the addition of brass plaques at the Writers' Walk, Sydney.
