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1940 lassie come home7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() The second was Song on Your Bugles (1936) about the working class in Northern England. Knight's first novel was Invitation to Life (Greenberg, 1934). He married twice, first on 28 July 1917, to Dorothy Caroline Noyes Hall, with whom he had three daughters and later divorced, and secondly to Jere Brylawski on 2 December 1932. He did stints as an art student, newspaper reporter and Hollywood screenwriter. His two brothers were both killed in World War I serving with the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. Knight had a varied career, including service in the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry during World War I as a signaller then served as a captain of field artillery in the U.S. The family later settled in the United States in 1912. Petersburg, Imperial Russia, to work as a governess for the imperial family. ![]() ![]() His father was a rich diamond merchant who, when Eric was two years old, was killed during the Boer War. Biography īorn in Menston, West Riding of Yorkshire, Knight was the youngest of three sons born to Marion Hilda (née Creasser) and Frederic Harrison Knight, both Quakers. He took American citizenship in 1942 shortly before his death. 1917–32, divorced)Įric Mowbray Knight (10 April 1897 – 15 January 1943) was an English novelist and screenwriter, who is mainly known for his 1940 novel Lassie Come-Home, which introduced the fictional collie Lassie. Menston, West Riding of Yorkshire, Englandĭorothy Caroline Noyes Hall (m. ![]()
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