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    Eric Mowbray Knight (10 April 1897 – 15 January 1943) was an English novelist and screenwriter, who is mainly known for his 1940 novel Lassie Come-Home, which introduced the fictional collie Lassie. He took American citizenship in 1942 shortly before his death.

  2. December 13, 1901. Died. January 15, 1943. edit data. An author who is mainly notable for creating the fictional collie Lassie. He was a native of Yorkshire in England, and had a varied career, including service in the Canadian Army during World War I and spells as an art student, newspaper reporter and Hollywood screenwriter.

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  3. Eric Knight has 34 books on Goodreads with 37945 ratings. Eric Knights most popular book is Lassie Come-Home.

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  5. Print. Lassie Come-Home is a novel written by Eric Knight about a rough collie 's trek over many miles to be reunited with the boy she loves. [1] Knight had introduced the reading public to the canine character of Lassie in a magazine story published on 17 December 1938, in The Saturday Evening Post, a story which he later expanded to the novel ...

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  6. April 19, 2023. Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight is a novel published in 1940 and when it was made into a movie in 1943, the character rose to prominence. Sadly, Eric Knight never got to see the fame that Lassie acquired, because he was killed in a World War II plane crash in 1943.

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  7. Eric Knight is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, artist manager, entrepreneur, and entertainment industry professional originally from the Miami suburb of Hialeah.

  8. Eric Knight | American author | Britannica. Contents. Eric Knight. American author. Learn about this topic in these articles: children’s literature. Lassie Come Home (1940), by Eric Knight, survived adaptation to film and television.

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