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Ellen Dymphna Cusack AM (21 September 1902 – 19 October 1981) was an Australian author. Born in Wyalong, New South Wales, Cusack was educated at Saint Ursula's College, Kingsgrove,〔(Profile ), middlemiss.org; retrieved 22 March 2008.〕 and graduated from Sydney University with an honours degree in Arts and a diploma in Education. She worked as a teacher until she retired in 1944 for health reasons. Her illness was confirmed in 1978 as multiple sclerosis.〔 Cusack wrote twelve novels (two of which were collaborations), seven plays,〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=The Playwrights Database )〕 three travel books, two children's books and one non-fiction book. Her collaborative novels were ''Pioneers on Parade'' (1939) with Miles Franklin, and ''Come in Spinner'' (1951) with Florence James.〔Spender (1988) p. 219〕 The play ''Red Sky at Morning'' was filmed in 1944, starring Peter Finch.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= ImDb )〕 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. The novel ''Come in Spinner'' was produced as a television series by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1989. 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, republished in 2012. ==Activism== 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.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dymphna Cusack」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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