Vernon Knowles

{{Short description|Australian writer (1899–1968)}}

{{for|the politician in Ontario, Canada|Vernon Charles Knowles}}

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| birth_name = Vernon Frank Knowles

| birth_date = 1899

| birth_place = Adelaide, South Australia

| death_date = 1968

| death_place = London

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| language = English

| nationality = Australian

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| years_active = 1917–1947

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Vernon Knowles (1899–1968) was an Australian writer, born in Adelaide.[http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A6945 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/exhibitions/recent-acquisitions4/virtual/photos/photo30.html |title=Knowles, Vernon, 1899-1968 |publisher=Lib.monash.edu.au |date=2012-09-13 |accessdate=2016-05-30}}

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. {{ISBN|0810835967}} 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.