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Morris Lurie (Moses Lurie) was born on 30 October, 1938 in Carlton, Victoria, Australia, is an Australian writer. Discover Morris Lurie'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 75 years old?
| Popular As |
Moses Lurie |
| Occupation |
writer |
| Age |
75 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Scorpio |
| Born |
30 October, 1938 |
| Birthday |
30 October |
| Birthplace |
Carlton, Victoria, Australia |
| Date of death |
8 October, 2014 |
| Died Place |
Wantirna, Victoria, Australia |
| Nationality |
Australia
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Morris Lurie Height, Weight & Measurements
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| Height |
Not Available |
| Weight |
Not Available |
| Body Measurements |
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| Eye Color |
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| Hair Color |
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Who Is Morris Lurie's Wife?
His wife is Helen Taylor
| Family |
| Parents |
Not Available |
| Wife |
Helen Taylor |
| Sibling |
Not Available |
| Children |
Not Available |
Morris Lurie Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Morris Lurie worth at the age of 75 years old? Morris Lurie’s income source is mostly from being a successful Writer. He is from Australia. We have estimated Morris Lurie's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2024 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
| House |
Not Available |
| Cars |
Not Available |
| Source of Income |
Writer |
Morris Lurie Social Network
Timeline
Moses "Morris" Lurie (30 October 1938 – 8 October 2014) was an Australian writer of comic novels, short stories, essays, plays, and children's books.
His work focused on the comic mishaps of Jewish-Australian men (often writers) of Lurie's generation, who are invariably jazz fans.
Lurie was born Moses Lurie in 1948 to Arie and Esther Lurie (Jewish emigrants from Poland) at the Royal Women's Hospital in Carlton, a suburb of Melbourne.
He was named after an uncle who had died in Poland.
He was schooled at Elwood Central School, Prahran Technical School and Melbourne High School, and then studied architecture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology before working in advertising.
His first novel was the comic Rappaport (Hodder and Stoughton, 1966) and focused on a day in the life of a young Melbourne antique dealer and his immature friend, Friedlander.
His second novel was The London Jungle Adventures of Charlie Hope (Hodder and Stoughton, 1968).
The characters, transplanted to London, were further chronicled in Rappaport's Revenge (1973).
Lurie's self-exile from Australia to Europe, the UK and Northern Africa provides much of the material for his fiction.
Flying Home (1978) was named by the National Book Council as one of the ten best Australian books of the decade.
Other books include a collection of plays called Waterman (1979); an autobiography Whole Life (1987); and a number of children's books, including the popular Twenty-Seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race (1969), which schoolchildren in Victoria voted their favourite young storybook by an Australian author.
Subsequent novels are Seven Books for Grossman (1983)—really a novella parodying the styles of various authors—and Madness (1991), about a writer dealing with a mentally unstable girlfriend.
Lurie is best known for his short stories.
His daughter Rachel had died by suicide in 1993, aged 23.
A review of the novel described it as "a father's anguish in words".
In 2000 he wrote an instructional guide When and How to Write Short Stories and What They Are.
His stories have been published in many prestigious magazines, including The New Yorker, The Virginia Quarterly, Punch, The Times, The Telegraph Magazine, Transatlantic Review, Island, Meanjin, Overland, Quadrant and Westerly.
In his 2008 novel, To Light Attained, Lurie deals with the subject of suicide.
Lurie succumbed to cancer on 8 October 2014, at the Wantirna Hospice.
Novels and short story collections
