OCRd book entry or other narrative
W.C.; 2nd year Law. 12.1.17, Cpl. 39th Btn.; later Spr. 8th F.C.E., and Sgt. H.Q. 5th Div. Engrs. Demob. 9.6.19.
Publications
Wrote for The Age, Flesh in Armour, 1932, Human Drift 1935, A Murder in Sydney 1937, The Plumed Flesh, 1938, Mountain Flat 1939 (a bestseller), The Go Getter 1942, plus poetry, Poems from the Mask, 1941, Elegiac and Other Poems, 1957
Visible notes
During the 1930s Mann developed important literary connections with writers including Vance and Nettie Palmer and Frank Dalby Davison. Foundation president (1938) of the P.E.N. Club (Melbourne), and an active member of the Victorian section of the Fellowship of Australian Writers from its inception in the same year, he soon became an influential figure in his own right. As president (1947-48) of the Victorian FAW he issued The Robert Close and Georgian House Case (1948), a pamphlet discussing writers and the law in the light of Close’s Love Me Sailor (1945) obscenity trial. ADB entry
