Morris West was born in St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia. He graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1937, and worked as a teacher in New South Wales and Tasmania.
He spent 12 years in a monastery of the Christian Brothers, taking annual vows, but left without taking final vows.
After leaving Australia in 1955 he lived in Austria, Italy, England and the USA, finally returning to Australia in 1980.
His works often were focused on international politics and the role of the Roman Catholic Church in international affairs. One of his most famous works The Shoes Of The Fisherman envisioned the election and career of a Slavic Pope, 15 years before the ascension of Karol Wojtyla to his historical role of becoming Pope John Paul II.
Morris West died while working at his desk on the final chapters of his novel The Last Confession about the trails and imprisonment of Giordano Bruno, who was burned at the stake for heresy in 1600. Bruno was a figure with whom he had long sympathized and even identified. In 1969 he had publshed a play The Heretic on the same subject.
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