Vernon Knowles

Vernon Knowles (17 April 1899 – 9 July 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." 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)