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(a.k.a.
Devaney, James Martin; Devaney, Jim; J. M. D.
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Also writes as: Fabian (12 works)
Born: 1890 Bendigo, Victoria
Died: 1976 Brisbane, Queensland
Gender: Male
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Full biographical information is only available to AustLit Subscribers. A truncated and unformatted biographical extract follows: James Devaney was born in Bendigo, Victoria, and was educated at St Joseph's College in Sydney. He became a Marist brother and took the religious name Brother Fabian, which he used as an early pen-name. As a Marist brother, he served as a teacher and tutor in North Queensland, and it was here that his lifelong interest in Aboriginal lore began. In 1929 he published The Vanished Tribes, a collection of stories from Aboriginal mythology. Devaney's first book of poetry was Fabian (1923), and later....To gain full access to the AustLit database become a subscriber. |
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Last amended:
25 Sep 2008