Brian Robinson Elliott AM FAHA (11 April 1910 – 29 August 1991)[1] was a writer and academic in Adelaide, South Australia, hailed as the first academic to regard Australian literature as a worthy field of study.
[6] Elliott taught English at two senior high schools[4] over six years, during which time his thesis was accepted for qualification as Master of Arts.
He was appointed temporary assistant in English at the University of Western Australia in 1938.
[4] He is reputedly the first critic to suspect the Ern Malley papers of being a hoax[1][8] and was called as an expert witness in the trial.
[9] Mapped but Not Known: The Australian Landscape of the Imagination was compiled by P. Robin Eaden and F. H. "Tim" Mares presented to Elliott on 11 April 1985, marking his 75th birthday, published 1986.