Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Devaney, James, 1890-1976
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Devaney, James Martin, 1890-1976
- Fabian Joseph, Brother
- Fabian
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1890-1976
History
James Martin Devaney was born in Sandhurst, Victoria, on 31 May 1890. Devaney studied at St. Joseph's College and in 1915 made his final vows, taking the religious name Fabian Joseph. However he left the order in July 1921. In 1921 he moved permanently to Queensland to a career of full-time writing and journalism. From 1924 to 1943 he published a weekly column of nature notes for the Brisbane Courier-Mail under the pseudonym 'Fabian'. He also wrote a regular 'Literary Section' for the Catholic Leader. Devaney was president of the Queensland Authors' and Artists' Association (later the Fellowship of Australian Writers or FAW). He died on 14 August 1976.
Places
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Revised
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Revised, Linda Justo, 27-Oct-2020
Language(s)
Script(s)
Sources
O'Hagan, M.D. (1983) 'Devaney, James Martin (1890–1976)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, accessed online 27 October 2020.