Louis Stone

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Louis Stone (21 October 1871—23 September 1935) was an Australian novelist and playwright.^[1][2]

He was born at Leicester, England, in 1871. He came with his parents to Brisbane in 1884, and the family moved to Sydney a year later. He began the arts course at the University of Sydney, but did not graduate, and entering the New South Wales Education Department, became first assistant at the Coogee school, and subsequently a teacher at the Sydney Boys High School. His first book, Jonah, a novel of larrikin life in Sydney, was published in London in 1911. Its merits were recognized by a few discerning readers, but it was not reprinted until 1933. Another novel, Betty Wayside, after being printed as a serial in the Lone Hand, was published in 1915. Stone then gave much time to writing plays and in 1920 visited London hoping to have a dramatized version of Jonah produced. After his return he did a little writing for local magazines, but his health began to deteriorate, and he was obliged to retire from the education department some time before his death at Sydney on 23 September 1935.

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• JonahPDF (645 KiB) at University of Sydney
• Betty WaysidePDF (611 KiB) at University of Sydney
• Works by Louis Stone at Project Gutenberg

• This article incorporates text from the public domain 1949 edition of Dictionary of Australian Biography from Project Gutenberg of Australia, which is in the public domain in Australia and the United States of America.

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NAME	Stone, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Australian novelist and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH	21 October 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH	23 September 1935
PLACE OF DEATH	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia