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Arthur Stringer
(1874–1950).Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer was born in Chatham, Ontario. He studied at the University of Toronto (1892–4) and briefly at Oxford University, before beginning a career in journalism ...
As for Me and My House
This 1941 novel by Sinclair Ross (1908–96) vividly describes living through the Depression on the Prairies. There is no better fictional account of the desolation that descended on this region ...
Edward McCourt
(1907 – 72).Edward Alexander McCourt was born in Mullinger, Ireland, and brought to Canada in 1909; he grew up on a farm outside Kitscoty, Alberta. After taking his high-school ...
Guy Vanderhaeghe
(b. 1951).Born and raised in Esterhazy, Saskatchewan, he majored in history at the University of Saskatchewan (B.A., 1971; M.A., 1975) and pursued further studies at the University of Regina ...
Keath Fraser
(b. 1944).Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he lives, he was educated at the University of British Columbia (B.A., 1966; M.A., 1969) and at the University of London (Ph.D. ...
Lorna Crozier
(1948– ),was born and raised in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, where she worked as a teacher (1972 –7) after graduating from the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. Crozier has taught creative ...
Margaret Laurence
(1926–87),Canadian novelist and short‐story writer, born in the prairie town of Neepawa, Manitoba (inspiration for the fictional ‘Manawaka’). In 1947 she married John Laurence, a civil engineer, ...
Prairie writing
According to Edward McCourt, author of a ground-breaking critical survey, The Canadian West in fiction (1949; rev. 1970), ‘Prairie literature properly begins with the nineteenth-century travellers ...
racism
The inability or refusal to recognize the rights, needs, dignity, or value of people of particular races or geographical origins. More widely, the devaluation of various traits of character or ...
Ross, Sinclair (1908–96) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature (2 ed.)
(1908–96).
Born on a homestead near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, one of three siblings, he grew up on prairie
Ross, Sinclair Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English
(1908– ),
Canadian novelist and short-story writer, born near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He was a bank employee throughout his working life. After retirement he travelled to ...
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