James Devaney
James Martin Devaney 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. He took his vows in 1915. Under the pen-name 'Fabian', he contributed between 1924 and 1943 a nature column to the Brisbane Courier.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,
- 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