Complex sentence: Sumner Locke Elliott (17 October 1917-24 June 1991) was an Australian (later American) novelist, born in Sydney to the writer Sumner Locke and the journalist Henry Logan Elliott.
Split into simpler sentences: Sumner Locke Elliott (17 October 1917-24 June 1991) was an Australian (later American) novelist. Elliott was born in Sydney to the writer Sumner Locke and the journalist Henry Logan Elliott.