There is more than one author in the Goodreads catalog with this name. This entry is for Charles ^2 Shaw. Charles Herbert Shaw was a novelist and journalist. He also wrote under the pseudonym Bant Singer. Charles Herbert Shaw (10 August 1900 – 1 August 1955) was an Australian journalist and novelist. (birth name: Charles Herbert Shaw) (a.k.a. Chas. H. Shaw). Also wrote as: Bant Singer Shaw was born in South Melbourne, Victoria. During the Depression years he held a variety of jobs in the countryside and his interest in writing led him to work at a newspaper in Forbes, New South Wales. Shaw had several stories published by The Bulletin and eventually was employed by the magazine as a rural editor. He had two collections of Outback short stories Outback Occupations (1943) and A Sheaf of Shorts (1944) and one volume of verse The Warrumbungle Mare (1943) published as well as two detective stories The Green Token (1943) and Treasure of the Hills (1944). Shaw decided after several rejections that no one outside Australia had an interest in stories about the Outback. He wrote a novel Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, published in 1952, about a U.S. Marine and a nun on a Japanese-held Pacific island. It was adapted for the screen as a 1957 film by John Huston and John Lee Mahin. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium in 1957.