author
Miles Franklin
1879–1954
Best known for My Brilliant Career, this Australian writer turned her own bush upbringing into sharp, memorable fiction. Her work mixed wit, independence, and a strong feminist spirit that helped shape Australian literary history.
2 Audiobooks
My Brilliant Career
by Miles Franklin
Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
by Miles Franklin
About the author
Born Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin in New South Wales in 1879, Miles Franklin grew up in rural Australia, and that experience deeply shaped her writing. She became famous at a young age when My Brilliant Career was published in 1901, a novel still widely read for its lively voice and its refusal to accept the narrow choices offered to women.
Franklin went on to write many novels and worked beyond Australia as well, including time in the United States with the National Women's Trade Union League and later service connected with wartime work in Europe. Across her career, she wrote from feminist and nationalist perspectives, often drawing on Australian life, politics, and landscape.
She died in 1954, but her influence only grew. Her name lives on through the Miles Franklin Literary Award, one of Australia's most important literary prizes, and through the lasting appeal of books that are bold, funny, and full of restless intelligence.