author
Arthur Lee Knight
1852–1944
Best known for fast-moving sea stories and boys' adventures, this British writer drew heavily on his own early naval experience. His books mix action, shipboard detail, and a strong feel for late Victorian maritime life.
2 Audiobooks
Leaves from a middy's log
by Arthur Lee Knight
The mid of the maintop
by Arthur Lee Knight
About the author
Born in Devon in 1852, Arthur Lee Knight became a popular writer of adventure fiction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Sources about his life agree that he entered the Royal Navy as a teenager and served as a midshipman, experience that later gave his naval stories a lived-in sense of language, discipline, and life at sea.
He wrote a long list of juvenile and adventure novels, especially sea tales such as Leaves from a Middy's Log, The Brother-Middies and Slavers, Ahoy!, and The Mid of the Maintop. His work was aimed at readers who liked danger, travel, and military or maritime action, and modern library records and reprint catalogs show that these books continued to circulate long after their original publication.
Knight died on July 7, 1944. Reliable pages located for this overview did not provide a confirmed usable portrait image, so no author photo is included here.