Life Summary

Name	Mona Alexis Brand
Alternative Names	Mona Alexis Fox
Born	22 October, 1915 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died	1 August, 2007 (aged 91) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Related Entries	[View as tree] Fox, Leonard Phillips (husband) Fox, David Henry (father-in-law) Street, Jessie Mary (colleague) Neilson, John Shaw (acquaintance) Davies, John Neale (subject)
Education *	Rockhampton Girls' Grammar (Qld) (student, 1922-1926) North Sydney Girls High School (student, 1927-1932)
Occupation or Descriptor *	public servant (1941-1945) Federal, Australia playwright (1946-2007) New South Wales, Australia poet (1946-2007) New South Wales, Australia communist (1947-1970) New South Wales, Australia autobiographer/memoirist (1990-1995) New South Wales, Australia
Key Events *	referendum on Indigenous rights (1967) (activist supporting it)
Key Organisations *	Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship (member) Melbourne Realist Writer's Group (member) Fellowship of Australian Writers (Vic) (member, 1941) New Theatre (Sydney) (playwright, 1955-1990)
Workplaces *	Sun (Sydney) newspaper (journalist) Dept of Labour & National Service (public servant, 1945-1948)

* Dates are approximate

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