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Eric Knight

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born

December 13, 1901

died

January 15, 1943

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An author who is mainly notable for creating the fictional collie Lassie.

He was a native of Yorkshire in England, and had a varied career, including service in the Canadian Army during World War I and spells as an art student, newspaper reporter and Hollywood screenwriter.

His first novel was Song on Your Bugles (1936) about the working class in Northern England. As "Richard Hallas," he wrote the hardboiled genre novel "You Play The Black and The Red Comes Up" (1938). Knight's "This Above All" is considered one of the significant novels of The Second World War.

Knight and his wife Jere Knight raised collies on their farm in Pleasant Valley, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His novel Lassie Come-Home (ISBN 0030441013) appeared in 1940. It was adapt...more

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Average rating: 4.11 · 3,608 ratings · 83 reviews · 15 distinct works

	Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight, Marguerite Kirmse (Illustrations) 4.11 avg rating — 3,557 ratings — published 1940 — 37 editions	My rating:
	You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up 3.94 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1938 — 5 editions	My rating:
	This Above All 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1940	My rating:
	Sam Small Flies Again 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1942	My rating:
	Reframe: how to solve the world's trickiest problems 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Wreckers Gate 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:
	The Flying Yorkshireman 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1946 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Mai presus de toate 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1983	My rating:
	Torna a casa Lassie! by Eric Knight, Mario Merlini (Translator), Roberta Badino (Illustrator) 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1995	My rating:
	An Unworthy Outcast 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:

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