Vernon Knowles

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

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 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)