Grattan-Smith, T E
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

(1871-1946) Australian ventriloquist, journalist and author of children's fiction (see Children's SF) born Thomas Edward Grattan Smith, using Grattan-Smith for his publishing activities. His Lost World novel, The Cave of a Thousand Columns (1938) exposes two young adventurers to Monsters and a non-human species known as the Birdmen in vast Underground caverns beneath Australia. [JC]
Thomas Edward Grattan Smith
born Portland, Victoria: 18 June 1871
died Bexley, New South Wales: 28 June 1946
works
- The Cave of a Thousand Columns (London: Hutchinson, 1938) [illus/hb/E Boye Uden]
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