Leonard Mann (15 November 1895 – 29 April 1981) was an Australian poet, and novelist.^[1]

Life

He served in the Australian Imperial Force during World War I, and with the Department of Aircraft Production in World War II.^[2]

He was, in September 1949, a charter member of the Australian Peace Council.^[3]

Awards

• 1957 Grace Leven Prize for Poetry for Elegiac and Other Poems
• Australian Literature Society's gold medal (for his first novel, Flesh in Armour)

Works

Poetry

• Elegiac, and other poems. Cheshire. 1957.
• The delectable mountains and other poems. Angus and Robertson. 1944.
• Poems from the mask. Hawthorn Press. 1941.
• The plumed voice: poems. Angus & Robertson. 1938.

Novels

• Flesh in Armour (1932)
• Human Drift. Angus and Robertson. 1935.
• A Murder in Sydney. Jonathan Cape. 1937.
• Mountain Flat. Jonathan Cape. 1939.
• The Go-Getter. Angus and Robertson. 1942.
• Andrea Caslin. Jonathan Cape. 1959.
• Venus Half-Caste. Hodder and Stoughton. 1963.

Anthologies

• Jennifer Strauss, ed. (1993). The Oxford book of Australian love poems. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-553297-5.