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
- Fabian: Poems, Melbourne: Lothian, 1923
- The Currency Lass : a Tale of the Convict Days, Sydney: Cornstalk, 1927
- The Vanished Tribes, Sydney: Cornstalk, 1929
- The Girl Oona, and Other Tales of the Australian Blacks, Sydney: Cornstalk Publishing Co., 1929
- The Witch-Doctor, and Other Tales of the Australian Blacks, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1930
- I-rinka the Messenger, and Other Tales of the Australian Blacks, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1930
- Earth Kindred, Melbourne: Frank Wilmot, Coles Library, 1931
- Debutantes: a poem, Hawthorn East, Victoria: The Hawthorn Press, (1939?)
- Dark Road, Hawthorn East, Victoria: Hawthorn Press, 1938,
- Where the Wind Goes, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1939
- Shaw Neilson, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1944
- Washdirt: a novel of old Bendigo, Melbourne: Georgian House, 1946
- Poems, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1950
Notes
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