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- Eric_Knight abstract "Eric Oswald Mowbray Knight (April 10, 1897 in Menston in West Yorkshire, England – January 15, 1943 in Suriname) was an English novelist and screenwriter, who is mainly notable for creating the fictional collie Lassie. He took American citizenship in 1942 shortly before his death.Born in West Yorkshire, England, Knight was the third of four sons born to Frederic Harrison and Marion Hilda (née Creasser) Knight, both Quakers. His father was a rich diamond merchant who, when Eric was two years old, was killed during the Boer War. His mother then moved to St. Petersburg, Russia, to work as a governess for the imperial family. She later settled in America.Knight had a varied career, including service in the Canadian Army during World War I, and stints as an art student, newspaper reporter and Hollywood screenwriter.He married twice, first on July 28, 1917 to Dorothy Caroline Noyes Hall with whom he had three daughters and later divorced, and secondly to Jere Brylawski on December 2, 1932.Knight's first novel was Invitation to Life (Greenberg, 1934). The second 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. He also helped co-author the film, Battle of Britain in the \"Why We Fight\" Series under the direction of Frank Capra.Knight and his second wife Jere Knight raised collies on their farm in Pleasant Valley, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. They resided at Springhouse Farm from 1939 to 1943. His novel Lassie Come-Home (ISBN 0030441013) appeared in 1940, expanded from a short story published in 1938 in The Saturday Evening Post. The novel was filmed by MGM in 1943 as Lassie Come Home with Roddy McDowall in the role of Joe Carraclough and canine actor Pal in the role of Lassie. The success of the novel and film generated more films and eventually several television series, cementing Lassie's icon status. The novel remains a favorite, in many reprints.One of Knight's last books was Sam Small Flies Again, republished as The Flying Yorkshireman (Pocket Books 493, 1948; 273 pages). On the back of The Flying Yorkshireman, this blurb appeared:In 1943, at which time he was a major in the United States Army – Special Services, Knight was killed in an air crash in Dutch Guiana (now Suriname) in South America.".
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- Eric_Knight deathDate "1943-01-15".
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- Eric_Knight birthDate "1897-04-10".
- Eric_Knight birthName "Eric Oswald Mowbray Knight".
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- Eric_Knight citizenship "American".
- Eric_Knight deathDate "1943-01-15".
- Eric_Knight deathPlace "Dutch Guiana".
- Eric_Knight genre "Fiction".
- Eric_Knight language "English".
- Eric_Knight name "Eric Knight".
- Eric_Knight nationality "British, American".
- Eric_Knight notableworks "Lassie Come-Home".
- Eric_Knight notableworks "This Above All,".
- Eric_Knight occupation "Writer".
- Eric_Knight period "1934".
- Eric_Knight spouse "Dorothy Caroline Noyes Hall".
- Eric_Knight spouse "Jere Brylawski".
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