James Devaney

James Martin Devaney (31 May 1890 – 14 August 1976) was an Australian poet, novelist, and journalist.

Biography

Born in Bendigo, Victoria, Devaney attended St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill, entering the Marist Brothers juniorate in 1904.[1] He took his vows in 1915. Under the pen-name 'Fabian', he contributed between 1924 and 1943 a nature column to the Brisbane Courier (renamed The Courier-Mail after 1933).[2]

Works

Notes

  1. Australian Poets and Their Works, by William Wilde, Oxford University Press, 1996
  2. M. D. O'Hagan, 'Devaney, James Martin (1890–1976)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 13, Melbourne University Press, 1993, pp 623–624.


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