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Name	James Phillip McAuley
Born	12 October, 1917 Lakemba, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died	15 October, 1976 (aged 59) Lenah Valley, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Religious Influence	Catholic Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Hope, Alec Derwent (friend) Clark, Charles Manning (friend) Harwood, Gwendoline Nessie (friend) Kerr, Anne Dorothy (colleague) Knopfelmacher, Frank (associate) Stewart, Harold Frederick (collaborator) Bolton, Alexander Thorley (collaborator) Stewart, Douglas Alexander (related entry) O'Neil, Lloyd John (related entry)
Occupation or Descriptor *	poet (1935-1960) New South Wales, Australia schoolteacher (1940-1943) New South Wales, Australia soldier (1943-1946) Federal, Australia academic (1946-1959) New South Wales, Australia academic (1960-1976) Tasmania, Australia literary scholar (1960-1976) Tasmania, Australia poet (1960-1976) Tasmania, Australia
Key Events *	Ern Malley literary hoax (1944) (perpetrator)

* Dates are approximate