Biography

Eric Knight was born on April 10, 1897 in Menston, Ilkley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for This Above All (1942), Lassie (1954) and Lassie Come Home (1943). He was married to Jere Brylawski and Dorothy Hall. He died on January 13, 1943 in Dutch Guiana [now Suriname].

Daughter is Winifred Knight Mewborn. Winifred's daughter, Betsy Mewborn Cowaned, is operating a website in order to try and find more information on her grandfather's death, on a WWII plane crash.

Wrote "Lassie Come Home" as "a bread and butter book." He took himself seriously as a writer and critic but his Royal Air Force commission allowed him to visit the MGM set (in uniform) during the making of the film made from the book (Lassie Come Home (1943)) and meet the cast. He died in action before the film was released.