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Life Summary

Name	Maxwell Henley Harris
Born	13 April, 1921 Henley Beach, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Died	13 January, 1995 (aged 73) Daw Park, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Cause of Death	cancer (prostate)
Education *	Mount Gambier Primary School (SA) (student, 1926-1932) Mount Gambier High School (SA) (student, 1933-1934) St Peter's College (Adelaide) (student, 1934-1938) University of Adelaide (student, 1939-1944)
Occupation *	newspaper employee (1938-1939) South Australia, Australia poet (1939-1994) South Australia, Australia magazine/journal editor (1941-1946) South Australia, Australia book publisher (1943-1946) Victoria, Australia university employee (1943-1944) South Australia, Australia bookseller (1947-1974) South Australia, Australia magazine/journal editor (1952-1955) South Australia, Australia magazine/journal editor (1957-1968) South Australia, Australia magazine/journal owner (1957-1974) South Australia, Australia columnist (1964-1991) South Australia, Australia
Military Service *	World War II (soldier, 1941-1942)
Awards	Officer of the Order of Australia (recipient, 1989) Australian Media Hall of Fame (inductee, 2018)
Key Events *	Ern Malley literary hoax (1944) (victim)
Key Organisations *	Common Cause (SA) (member) Common Cause (Sydney) newspaper Foster Parents Plan of Australia (sponsor) Contemporary Art Society of Australia (SA) (president, 1943-1944)
Workplaces *	On Dit (University of Adelaide) student paper (reporter, 1939) Reed & Harris (co-owner, 1943) University of Adelaide (economics) (research officer, 1943-1944) Mary Martin Book Shop (owner, 1947-1974) Australian Letters (co-owner, 1957-1968) Australian Letters (co-editor, 1957-1968) Australian Book Review (owner, 1961-1974) Australian newspaper (columnist, 1964-1984) Macmillan Co of Australia Pty Ltd (consultant, 1974-1980)

* Dates are approximate