title: Collie Knox
text: # Collie Knox
  
  Columb 'Collie' Thomas Knox (1899–1977) was a British writer and journalist active during World War II and the 1950s. After a varied military career, he joined the Daily Express before switching to the Daily Mail, which promoted him as a star journalist.
  
  In 1944 he married Gwendoline Frances Mary Mitchell, but they divorced in 1948.
  
  For a time he shared a flat in Brighton with landscape designer Peter Coats, and together with Sir David Webster, Robin Maugham, Douglas Byng, and others, became slightly notorious as one of that town's homosexual celebrities.
  
  ## Books
  
  * Collie Knox Calling! A Selection of the famous Friday "Week-end" broadcasts now appearing in the Daily Mail, Chapman and Hall, (1937)
  * Collie Knox Again, Chapman and Hall, (1938).
  * It Might Have Been You, Chapman & Hall, (1939).
  * Heroes All, Hodder & Stoughton, (1941).
  * Atlantic Battle (1941).
  * It had to be me , Methuen & Co., (1947).
  * The Un-Beaten Track, Cassell and Company, (1944).
  