Leonard Mann

Leonard Mann (15 November 1895 29 April 1981) was an Australian poet, and novelist.[1]

Life

He served in the Australian Imperial Force during World War I, and with the Department of Aircraft Production in World War II.[2]

He was, in September 1949, a charter member of the Australian Peace Council.[3]

Awards

Works

Poetry

  • Elegiac, and other poems. Cheshire. 1957.
  • The delectable mountains and other poems. Angus and Robertson. 1944.
  • Poems from the mask. Hawthorn Press. 1941.
  • The plumed voice: poems. Angus & Robertson. 1938.

Novels

  • Flesh in Armour (1932)
  • Human Drift. Angus and Robertson. 1935.
  • A Murder in Sydney. Jonathan Cape. 1937.
  • Mountain Flat. Jonathan Cape. 1939.
  • The Go-Getter. Angus and Robertson. 1942.
  • Andrea Caslin. Jonathan Cape. 1959.
  • Venus Half-Caste. Hodder and Stoughton. 1963.

Anthologies

  • Jennifer Strauss, ed. (1993). The Oxford book of Australian love poems. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-553297-5.

References

  1. Austlit - Leonard Mann
  2. http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Flesh-in-Armour/Leonard-Mann/e/9781570037702
  3. "Australian Peace Council Launched". Tribune (551). New South Wales, Australia. 7 September 1949. p. 5. Retrieved 3 October 2020 via National Library of Australia.
  • ["Remembering the war: Australian novelists in the interwar years.", Australian Literary Studies]


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