Morris Lurie is the author of some three dozen books, for adults and children.

They include Flying Home (Outback Press, 1978), selected by the national Book Council as one of the ten best books of its decade, The Twenty-Seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race (Collins, London and Simon and Schuster, New York, 1969), winner of the inaugural
YABBA Award as voted by the schoolchildren of Victoria, and his Banjo-winning autobiography, Whole Life (McPhee Gribble, 1987).

He received the Patrick White Award in 2006.

Morris Lurie lives in Melbourne, writes, paints, walks and listens to jazz.