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Stephen Murray-Smith
Stephen Murray-Smith AM (9 September 1922 – 31 July 1988) was an Australian writer, editor and educator.
==Early life and education==
Murray-Smith's father ran a lucrative business shipping Australian horses to India for the armed forces. It enabled the family to live in Toorak, one of Melbourne's wealthiest suburbs, and to send Stephen to board at Geelong Grammar School from 1934. He described his home as "bookless", adding however that his mother was "a voracious reader all her life", getting her books from the circulating and public libraries.〔Stephen Murray-Smith, ''Indirections: A Literary Biography'', Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, James Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville, 1981, p. 13.〕
The business, and the wealth, came "to a dead end in 1938, when the Indian army mechanised",〔Murray-Smith, ''Indirections'', p. 4.〕 but generosity from the school and from Murray-Smith's grandfather allowed him to remain at Geelong Grammar and complete his schooling in 1940.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 K. S. Inglis, "Murray-Smith, Stephen (1922–1988)", Australian Dictionary of Biography )〕 Murray-Smith later described Geelong Grammar as "a good but conservative middle-class school".〔Murray-Smith, ''Indirections'', p. 25.〕 In his position as secretary of the Public Affairs Society at the school he "invited Ralph Gibson of the Communist Party down to talk to us at school—under J.R. Darling it was that kind of school".〔Murray-Smith, ''Indirections'', p. 19.〕
He spent a year at the University of Melbourne before enlisting in the army at the end of 1941. An avid reader from childhood, he recorded that in the three years before he enlisted he read 314 books, of which only one, Francis Ratcliffe's ''Flying Fox and Drifting Sand'', was Australian.〔
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