Vernon Knowles (17 April 1899 – 9 July 1968) was an Australian writer, born in Adelaide.Austlit - Vernon Knowles
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.
Knowles wrote a series of fantasy stories, The Street of Queer Houses and other Tales.Neil Barron, Fantasy and horror : a critical and historical guide to literature, illustration, film, TV, radio, and the Internet.Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1999. 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 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)
References
External links AustLit page A balance between sense and sensibility, 4 April 2007, article in The Australian Bibliography at Fantastic Fiction