Vernon Knowles

For the politician in Ontario, Canada, see Vernon Charles Knowles.

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

Vernon Knowles
Born	Vernon Frank Knowles 1899 Adelaide, South Australia
Died	1968 London
Language	English
Nationality	Australian
Years active	1917–1947

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."^[3]

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)