1897-1943 · Yorkshire-born writer and screenwriter, author of Lassie Come-Home
About Eric Knight
Eric Knight (1897–1943) was born in Menston in the West Riding of Yorkshire and moved to the United States as a boy. He served as a signaller with Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry in the First World War, then worked as an art student, newspaper reporter and Hollywood screenwriter before turning to fiction in the 1930s. His other books include the Second World War novel This Above All and the comic Yorkshire tales of Sam Small. He raised collies on his farm in Pennsylvania, and he was killed on 15 January 1943 in an aircraft crash in Dutch Guiana while serving as a major in the United States Army.
Lassie Come-Home is the story of a tricolour collie who crosses hundreds of miles of Scottish and English country to return to the boy she loves. In the Yorkshire mining village of Greenall Bridge, Lassie belongs to Sam Carraclough, and every man in the village agrees she is the finest collie he has ever seen.