Sin embargo, su mayor fama se debe a Lassie, un collie ficticio que protagonizó su novela Lassie Come-Home (1940), basada en un cuento que había publicado en la revista Saturday Evening Post. Con el tiempo Knight volvería a sus raíces de Yorkshire en libros como The Happy Land, la historia de una familia minera que recibió excelentes críticas.
Luego de servir en la Primera Guerra Mundial, laboró como periodista y crítico teatral hasta que en 1930 logró vender su primer cuento. Nacido en West Yorkshire, Inglaterra El escritor Eric Knight creció en Inglaterra y fue obrero de fábricas antes de emigrar a Philadelphia en 1912. Knight commissioned his good friend Peter Hurd to create this portrait. Lassie was phenomenally successful, spawning a series of books movies, beginning in 1943 with Lassie Come Home, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Roddy McDowall and a long-running television series that first aired in 1954. But he is best known for creating the fictional collie Lassie in Lassie Come-Home (1940), adapted from his short story in the Saturday Evening Post.
Knight eventually returned to his Yorkshire roots in his writing, including the critically successful book The Happy Land, about a mining family. After serving in World War I, he worked as a journalist and theater critic until selling his first short story in 1930. Eric) Knight Restrictions & Rights Usage conditions apply Object number NPG.89.226 Exhibition Label Born West Yorkshire, England Writer Eric Knight was raised in England and worked in factories there before immigrating to Philadelphia in 1912. Artist Peter Hurd, - Sitter Eric Knight, - 1943 Date 1941 Type Painting Medium Egg tempera on panel Dimensions Stretcher: 65.4 × 62.9cm (25 3/4 × 24 3/4") Frame: 71.8 × 69.2 × 4.4cm (28 1/4 × 27 1/4 × 1 3/4") Topic Exterior\Landscape\Western Eric Knight: Male Eric Knight: Literature\Writer\Novelist Eric Knight: Literature\Writer\Screenwriter Portrait Credit Line National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution gift of Jere (Mrs.
0 kommentar(er)
