Vernon Knowles Explained

Vernon Knowles
Birth Name:	Vernon Frank Knowles
Birth Date:	1899
Birth Place:	Adelaide, South Australia
Death Date:	1968
Death Place:	London
Language:	English
Nationality:	Australian
Years Active:	1917-1947

Vernon Knowles (1899 - 1968) was an Australian writer, born in Adelaide.^[1]

He attended the University of Western Australia but did not complete a degree. With some encouragement from Walter Murdoch, he turned to writing. He became an expatriate, living mostly in England.^[2]

Knowles wrote a series of fantasy stories, The Street of Queer Houses and other Tales.^[3] Neil Barron has stated: "Knowles's work is in the tradition of Richard Garnett and has affinities with the work of Lord Dunsany and Donald Corley, but he affects a more naive and relaxed style than any of these. His best stories are amusing literary confections."

He died in London in 1968.

Works

• Songs and Preludes (1917) poetry
  • Lamps and Vine Leaves (1919), poetry, with Charles Rischbieth Jury^[4] and Edward James Ranembe Morgan Bypaths (1921)
• The Street of Queer Houses: And Other Stories (1924)
• Poems (1925)
• Here and Otherwhere (1926) stories
• Beads of Coloured Days: a study in behaviour (1926)
• Silver Nutmegs (1927) stories
• The Ripening Years (1927) poetry
• The Ladder (1929)
• Pitiful Dust. A study in frustration (1931)
• Two and Two Make Five (1935)
• Eternity In An Hour, a study in childhood (1932) memoir
• The Experience of Poetry (1935)
• Prince Jonathan. A dramatic lyric (1935)
• Love Is My Enemy (1947)
• Sapphires: Here and Otherwhere and Silver Nutmegs (1978, reprint)

External links

• AustLit page
• A balance between sense and sensibility, 4 April 2007, article in The Australian
• Bibliography at Fantastic Fiction

Notes and References

1. http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A6945 Austlit - Vernon Knowles
2. Web site: Knowles, Vernon, 1899-1968 . Lib.monash.edu.au . 2012-09-13 . 2016-05-30.
3. Neil Barron, Fantasy and horror : a critical and historical guide to literature, illustration, film, TV, radio, and the Internet.Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1999.
4. Web site: Wall . Barbara . Biography - Charles Rischbieth Jury - Australian Dictionary of Biography . Adb.online.anu.edu.au . 1958-08-22 . 2016-05-30.